Patrick Collison (Stripe CEO) - Craft, Beauty, & The Future of Payments
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Textual Rigor Fuels Insight
Both readers and writers gain considerable benefits from textual communication, as it enhances efficiency and allows future readers to trace thought processes over time. Writing serves as a tool for organizing thoughts, significantly impacting effectiveness. The distinction between oral and textual cultures is profound; textual cultures create rigidity in knowledge that enables clearer identification of discrepancies between claims and reality. This rigidity allows ideas to be scrutinized more effectively, leading to organizational insights not easily found in oral traditions.
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