Neil Thanedar

This post intentionally mirrors Paul Graham’s essay with the same title.

Before Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and even AT&T, there was America.

Notes: Neil: Welcome to another episode of Quote Notes!

Idea: Celebrate the history of Black Bottom by investing in the next generation of Detroit leaders.

Idea: An accelerator to help ambitious optimists get into activism and politics.

“There are two distinct ways to be politically moderate: on purpose and by accident.“— Paul Graham, The Two Kinds of Moderate, December 2019 What is the opposite of partisan politics?

What Modern Protesters Can Learn From The American Revolution If you watch Ken Burns’ The American Revolution documentary, it’s shocking how okay most early American colonists were with being ruled by the British.

“Those who have a ‘Why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘How’.” ― Viktor Frankl quoting Friedrich Nietzsche, Man’s Search for Meaning Let me guess: Viktor Frankl calls this feeling the “existential vacuum” in his famous book Man’s Search for Meaning.

In this Note, I focus on Ken Burns' PBS documentary series titled "The American Revolution".

You know that feeling when you see someone else succeed in a way you want to succeed?