Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
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delectation.
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Finance saw the innovation first, because the stakes were high, and the value of an incremental computational advantage was very large.
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argot
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scintilla
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Founders at Work,
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One of Mark Twain’s more uplifting quotes maintains that small people always belittle your ambitions, while the great make you feel that you too can be great.
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flitting
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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after the other, while an equity
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round is having to convince five women to do a sixsome with you.
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strumpets
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Large crowds trigger my always incipient misanthropy, and when the crush of people became a mob, I booked it out of there in an Uber.