• bitofhope@awful.systems
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    28 days ago

    Your success as a greenhorn Silicon Valley intellectual will rest on your ability to shoehorn Girard’s name and the “mimetic theory” with which he’s associated into as many blog posts, podcast interviews, and tweets as possible.

    Instructions unclear, accidentally started reading Gerard instead.

    Why would I even want to learn anything from the French? As the article points out, they can’t even outcompete China, a place well known for its free speech and low taxation. French language doesn’t even have a word for entrepreneur.