The Next Civil War - Dispatches from the American Future
Steven Marche
Summary
A thought experiment on what America's next civil war would look like including opinions from the world's leading experts
Rating: 4/5
Notes
The collapse will arrive sooner and more suddenly than anyone expects, but it won’t be a surprise
More police brutality will occur and riots will come
Intelligence services of foreign countries are preparing documents on the possibility of America’s collapse
The next civil war will be a war over meaning
The hard right has strategically infiltrated law enforcement
Virality concentrates attention - expect a lot of polarization and crazy theories
As privilege declines, violence increases
The US will soon enter a period of radical instability no matter who’s in power or what policies are expected
We live in a period of cheap food and safe cities in an orderly world. That will not last
Inequality and climate change will cause the disasters ordinary Americans will feel acutely
The rich know what historians know: every society in human history with levels of inequality like in the US descend into war, revolution or plague - no exceptions
The future of America will involve severe drought, economic downturn and the erosion of major coastal cities
The violence that imposes order to control violence produces more violence and more disorder
Who controls the military is the most important question
All information will become propaganda
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Make Something Wonderful
Steve Jobs
Summary
The life of Steve Jobs in his own words
Rating: 5/5
Notes
Make something wonderful and put it out there
‘You appear, have a chance to blaze in the sky, then you disappear’
When you’re a stranger in a place, you notice thing you don’t otherwise (Jobs after India trip)
Whenever you start with nothing, always shoot for the moon. You have nothing to lose.
You never achieve what you want without falling on your face a few times
Never be afraid to fail. You never achieve what you want without falling flat on your face a few times
We are never taught to listen to our intuitions, to develop and nurture them. But if you do pay attention to these subtle insights, you can make them come true
Creativity equals connecting previously unrelated experiences and insights others don’t see
Believe that some of what you follow with your heart will come back and make your life richer. And it will. And you will gain even firmer trust on your instincts and intuitions
Make your avocation your vocation. Make what you love your work.
The journey is the reward. The reward isn’t in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it’s in crossing the rainbow
To find A+ talent, if experienced, look at their track record and results
The world we know is a human creation and we can push it forward
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do (read whole ad ‘here’s to the crazy ones)
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit - Aristotle
Hire people better than you are
You can’t plan to meet the people who will change your life
It’s impossible to connect the dots looking forward, but they make sense looking backwards so you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you
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