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Jeremiah Watkins Is WILD! | ep 104 - History Hyenas

History Hyenas18 views
The hosts discuss the complex legacy of Thomas Edison, highlighting his ruthless business tactics, rivalry with Nikola Tesla, and the marketing-driven origins of the American film industry.summaryEdison's rivalry with Tesla was fueled by his inability to accept competing technology; he used propaganda (electrocuting an elephant) to associate Alternating Current with death to protect his Direct Current monopoly.takeawayThe major Hollywood studios (Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal) were founded in Los Angeles specifically because filmmakers fled New Jersey to escape Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company, which attempted to monoptakeaway

The Path To Power: Ambition, Status, Strength & Respect - Robert Greene (4K)

Chris Williamson36 views
Pressure as a Creative Necessity: Green asserts that the human brain evolved under pressure and needs 'barometric pressure' (deadlines, stakes) to function at its peak. He cites Thomas Edison’s self-imposed five-year deatakeawayLimits of Anthropomorphism vs. Empathy: In discussing Thomas Nagel's essay 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?', Green critiques academia's tendency to react against anthropomorphism by swinging too far the other way. He belietakeaway

Is The World Getting Worse? Matt Ridley Doesn’t Think So | The Show | Dad Saves America

Dad Saves America78 views
Innovation Requires Optimism: Innovation is driven by ambitious optimists (e.g., Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison) in wealthy societies, not by pessimists. Telling young people the world is doomed suppresses the agency requiredtakeawayHistorical Pattern of Doom: Pessimism is a recurring historical phenomenon. In the 1970s, similar predictions of famine, ice ages, and resource depletion were made but did not come to pass. Thomas Bevington McCauley notetakeaway