Schumpeter: In praise of misfits | The Economist
But what do you call the “Full of Themselves” mental disorder that afflicts venture capitalists?

Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit | David Graeber | The Baffler
“Common sense suggests that if you want to maximize scientific creativity, you find some bright people, give them the resources they need to pursue whatever idea comes into their heads, and then leave them alone. Most will turn up nothing, but one or two may well discover something. But if you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell those same people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.”

Racist Culture is a Factory Defect
by Anil Dash

Los Angeles Review of Books – Measures Of American Beauty
Josh Wilker being brilliant again. On The Art of Fielding, but so much more.