This week: How new technologies earn our trust, and why it’s so hard.

Mik said it was Ep 27 in the intro. But you and me? We know it’s not.

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This week: How James created a successful open source project, and the parallels between trust in business and romantic relationships.

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This week: We talk about Focus. James’ Soylent arrived, and a little about Typography.

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This week: How ads work and ahem “Wearables”… Ok let’s be honest. The Apple Watch. But we discuss the form factor in general.

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Peter Crysdale founded StrategyHack to close the divide between the startup and marketing communities in NYC. He also runs Startup Grind New York. In this episode Peter shares stories, tactics, and useful resources for entrepreneurs.

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Robin Williams was a magical person, gone too early.

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Writing sample (From Das Kapital)

I originally planned to just cross out words. But since that required changing tenses and conjugations, I’ll just provide the original and the revised version.

The desire after hoarding is in its very nature unsatiable. In its qualitative aspect, or formally considered, money has no bounds to its efficacy, i.e., it is the universal representative of material wealth, because it is directly convertible into any other commodity. But, at the same time, every actual sum of money is limited in amount, and, therefore, as a means of purchasing, has only a limited efficacy. This antagonism between the quantitative limits of money and its qualitative boundlessness, continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. It is with him as it is with a conqueror who sees in every new country annexed, only a new boundary.

James’ revisions:

The desire to hoard is fundamentally unsatiable. Qualitatively, money has unlimited efficacy – it’s the universal representation of material wealth – because it’s convertible into any commodity. But, every actual sum of money is a fixed amount, so it has a limited efficacy as a means of purchasing. This antagonism between the limits and boundlessness of money continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. He’s like a conqueror who, with each new country they annex, just sees a new boundary.

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