Creator of AngelList https://nav.al/

Todd Buchholz says these kids today are the Go Nowhere Generation. The likelihood of 20-somethings moving to another state has dropped well over 40 percent since the 1980s, according to calculations based on Census Bureau data. The stuck-at-home mentality hits college-educated Americans as well as those without high school degrees. According to the Pew Research Center, the proportion of young adults living at home nearly doubled between 1980 and 2008, before the Great Recession hit... For about $200, young Nevadans who face a statewide 13 percent jobless rate can hop a Greyhound bus to North Dakota, where they’ll find a welcome sign and a 3.3 percent rate. Why are young people not crossing borders? (more)

Matt Stoller: Free Our Doctors, Engineers, Daycare Workers, Cheer Coaches, etc. from Fear. One thing I keep hearing over and over from people in different businesses is a sense of fear. Roughly 80% of the interviews I do start with ‘you’re not going to use my name, right?’ This is as true of conversations with cheer coaches as it is of tech engineers, printers, artists in Hollywood, office supply vendors, and software entrepreneurs. People are terrified of retaliation, and this fear is pervasive across the political economy (more)

David Perell: Audience-First Products. The Internet swallows up an increasing percentage of our leisure time, but people under-estimate the economic opportunities it presents — even for college seniors. First, I discovered a better way to find a job. Then, I used the Internet to build my business. What follows is the three-step process I’ve used to create professional opportunities online (more)

Matt Stoller: This is Not a Democracy, It's a Cheerocracy: The Cheerleading Monopoly Varsity Brands. Today I’m going to write about Varsity Brands, the Bain Capital-owned corporation which controls the sport of cheerleading. (more)

Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967)[2] is an American special effects designer and fabricator, actor, educator, and television personality and producer, known as the former co-host (with Jamie Hyneman) of the Discovery Channel television series MythBusters and Unchained Reaction.[1] His model work has appeared in major films, including Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and The Matrix Reloaded. He is the host of a new TV program, Savage Builds, which premiered on the Science Channel on June 14, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Savage

member of US Senate, representing Arizona (more)

The pharyngeal reflex or gag reflex is a reflex contraction of the back of the throat, evoked by touching the Soft Palate. It prevents something from entering the throat except as part of normal swallowing and helps prevent choking. Different people have different sensitivities to the gag reflex. (more)

For a consumer to figure out whether he's getting the Broad Band quality he's paying for. (more)

Building A Second Brain

Tiago Forte PKM course: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ on building a Second Brain (more)

Course by Tiago Forte and David Perell on Writing As Online Networking. https://www.writeofpassage.school/ (more)

Loneliness, Alienation

conference created/run by Esther Dyson (more)

An open loop is a control loop that has an absence of feedback. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_loop_(disambiguation) (more)

Stanley Milgram study, pushing people to administer shocks to subjects. (more)

Tim Wu is an American academic who ran unsuccessfully in the 2014 Democratic primary for lieutenant governor of the state of New York. He is best known for coining the phrase network neutrality (Net Neutrality) in his paper "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination",[3] and popularizing the concept thereafter, leading in part to the 2010 passage of a federal Net Neutrality rule.[4][5][6] Wu has also made significant contributions to wireless communications policy, most notably with his "CarterFone" proposal.[7] Wu is a scholar of the media and technology industries, and his academic specialties include antitrust, copyright, and telecommunications law. In 2013, Wu was named to National Law Journal's "America's 100 Most Influential Lawyers." Additionally, Wu was named one of Scientific American's 50 people of the year in 2006, and in 2007 Wu was named one of Harvard University's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine.[1] His book The Master Switch was named among the best books of 2010 by The New Yorker magazine,[8] Fortune magazine,[9] Publishers Weekly,[10] and other publications. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu (more)

Existential therapy - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_therapy Instead of regarding human experiences such as anxiety, alienation and depression as implying the presence of mental illness, existential psychotherapy sees these experiences as natural stages in a normal process of human development and maturation. In facilitating this process of development and maturation, existential psychotherapy involves a philosophical exploration of an individual's experiences stressing the individual's freedom and responsibility to facilitate a higher degree of meaning and well-being in his or her life (more)

Existentialism (/ˌɛɡzɪˈstɛnʃəlɪzəm/)[1] is a tradition of philosophical enquiry which takes as its starting point the experience of the human subject—not merely the thinking subject, but the acting, feeling, living human individual.[2] It is associated mainly with certain 19th- and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,[3][4][5] shared the belief in that beginning of philosophical thinking. While the predominant value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity.[6] In the view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential angst" (or variably, existential attitude, dread, etc.), or a sense of disorientation, confusion, or dread in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.[7] Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism (more)

Angst means fear or anxiety... Where animals are guided solely by instinct, said Kierkegaard, human beings enjoy a freedom of choice that we find both appealing and terrifying.[5][6] It is the anxiety of understanding of being free when considering undefined possibilities of one's life and one's power of choice over them... While Kierkegaard's angst referred mainly to ambiguous feelings about moral freedom within a religious personal belief system, later existentialists discussed conflicts of personal principles, cultural norms, and existential despair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angst