Heraclitus — 'For the best men choose one thing above all—immortal glory among mortals; but the masses stuff themselves like cattle.'

nassim taleb is primarily a philosopher who pretends to be a hedge fund guy, jordan peterson, robert kiyosaki, tim ferriss maybe, sam bankman fried, the tech lead yt

archetype is people who sell their success as a model for you to follow while having none themselves, wrapped up as some kind of philosophical position, so they can make money

lots of self help authors, failed vc funds, podcasts

the old saying goes that every entrepreneur wishes they were a philosopher, and every philosopher wishes they were an entrepreneur

generally holds true soros marc rich bill gates musk thiel nassim taleb epstein etc

bad grid, bad fibre, #146 in the world in electricity production per capita. less power output than many US states, rule of law risk, civil unrest risk, and data sovereignty (gdpr), must get expat engineers (and get them visas)

large scale offshore wind in norway could generate 50-75% of the entire US production with 80% uptime and then DCs built in norway or EU area

cant fund infrastructure because that is when the bad governance results in money and asset being stolen

rule of law why country like singapore and finland end up being richer than brazil or argentina