RE: Bret and Eric Weinstein, Pivotal Discussions
I finished reading The Righteous Mind the other day after your post about that, and it was awesome. The parts that relate to descriptive moral analysis were huge, I feel like I can comprehend morality way better now thanks to the idea of the 5/6 axis of moraliy.
The Weinstein bros are certainly smart dudes with good points, although very smug to the point of being kinda hard to stomach in large doses. I'll give this one a try.
I think the most interesting thing about the entire Thiel crew is how quiet they are - while most people believe that making noise = having influence, the Thiel corner of the world is more focused on quietly acting behind the scenes. Lately I think that side of things, creating big change WITHOUT the veneer of extreme public relations, is an area that can be tapped into for extreme improvement both for me and for many steemians in general.
I'll give this one a try... will let you know if I get deep into it.
Heheh yea, their way of explaining can come off as needlessly drawn out and a bit smug. But when you parse it apart, you realize they do so to make sure every point is rational and comes across without assumption.
That's a great point on the 'Thiel effect.' There is this conflation now that big noise means big change, whereas that can be a tremendous distraction from real progress at times.