## Amplified Tribalism ### Amplified Tribalism  #### Metadata * Author: [[notboring.co]] * Full Title: Amplified Tribalism * Category: #articles * URL: <https://www.notboring.co/p/amplified-tribalism> #### Highlights * Now more than ever, every company needs a solid financial model to steer the ship. I've worked with the Causal team to create the Startup Suite — 4 template models for early stage startups: * I thought that those three factors might be enough to precipitate the first global scenius, a concept musician Brian Eno described as "the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius." * Pipedream isn't making something as controversial as weapons. It's trying to build an underground network of tubes that powers "delivery so fast, it feels like teleporting." It's an audacious bet, and the company has and will continue to face all sorts of challenges, ranging from robotics to plain old municipal politics, but the fact that grown-ass adults (many of them anonymous) spent time shitting on it is nothing short of pathetic. * That said, I do think that critique, debate, investigation, and accountability are important. The worst thing I've read in a long time is the story that just came out on the Alzheimer's researcher who fabricated images and set Alzheimer's research on the wrong course for 16 years. The deception was only uncovered when a skeptical short seller hired a sleuth to dig in. As someone whose biggest fear is losing my memory and getting Alzheimer's, I wish the skeptics had done their thing a long time ago. This is an extreme example, but there are many other situations where skepticism is useful in detecting fraud. * Tim Urban wrote a typically amazing piece in his 10-part The Story of Us series (another that you need to read if you're interested in the ideas in today's essay) called Idea Labs and Echo Chambers. * An Idea Lab "is an intellectual culture where high-rung thinking thrives and where it can be done well communally." In an Idea Lab, the goal is to get to the truth, and debate, disagreement, and idea sharpening are welcome. An Echo Chamber is what it sounds like. In an Echo Chamber, "Praising the object becomes a very cool thing to do, while saying anything bad about the object is considered an act of unredeemable blasphemy." In an Idea Lab, people separate ideas from people or teams. Ideas are good and bad on their own merits, and people are good or bad on their own merits. In an Echo Chamber, ideas and the people or teams who support them are inseparable. If someone disagrees with you, they're an asshole; if they agree with you, they're A-OK. # Amplified Tribalism  ## Metadata - Author: [[notboring.co]] - Full Title: Amplified Tribalism - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.notboring.co/p/amplified-tribalism ## Highlights - Now more than ever, every company needs a solid financial model to steer the ship. I've worked with the Causal team to create the Startup Suite — 4 template models for early stage startups: - I thought that those three factors might be enough to precipitate the first global scenius, a concept musician Brian Eno described as “the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius.” - Pipedream isn’t making something as controversial as weapons. It’s trying to build an underground network of tubes that powers “delivery so fast, it feels like teleporting.” It’s an audacious bet, and the company has and will continue to face all sorts of challenges, ranging from robotics to plain old municipal politics, but the fact that grown-ass adults (many of them anonymous) spent time shitting on it is nothing short of pathetic. - That said, I do think that critique, debate, investigation, and accountability are important. The worst thing I’ve read in a long time is the story that just came out on the Alzheimer’s researcher who fabricated images and set Alzheimer’s research on the wrong course for 16 years. The deception was only uncovered when a skeptical short seller hired a sleuth to dig in. As someone whose biggest fear is losing my memory and getting Alzheimer’s, I wish the skeptics had done their thing a long time ago. This is an extreme example, but there are many other situations where skepticism is useful in detecting fraud. - Tim Urban wrote a typically amazing piece in his 10-part The Story of Us series (another that you need to read if you’re interested in the ideas in today’s essay) called Idea Labs and Echo Chambers. - An Idea Lab “is an intellectual culture where high-rung thinking thrives and where it can be done well communally.” In an Idea Lab, the goal is to get to the truth, and debate, disagreement, and idea sharpening are welcome.  An Echo Chamber is what it sounds like. In an Echo Chamber, “Praising the object becomes a very cool thing to do, while saying anything bad about the object is considered an act of unredeemable blasphemy.” In an Idea Lab, people separate ideas from people or teams. Ideas are good and bad on their own merits, and people are good or bad on their own merits. In an Echo Chamber, ideas and the people or teams who support them are inseparable. If someone disagrees with you, they’re an asshole; if they agree with you, they’re A-OK.