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I suspect one subconscious reason I'm interested in maker stuff right now is that I think we're entering a kind of ronin world where the doers of the world are in an unusually autonomous condition due to the fall of political/cultural leaderly elites... 🤔
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I think Arendt was right about makers being the clueless middle. Most amazing makers I know aren't really into broader action beyond the tools that know - ie naive "tech solves everything" approaches. Hacktivism is maybe the closest thing?
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quite possible, but that's actually been what's happening for the last decade and the costs are piling up and I suspect boards are increasingly wary of trusting them unless it's a truly extractive company in a harvesting opp
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Yea, I think this is actually what activist investors are profiting off of. BigCo boards are often delinquent/self-serving, voting themselves more money/perks, so there's value to be unlocked by putting effective people in there.
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Yea, this is true and also the LP base is getting smarter. All of the craziness of LBOs/junk bonds wasn't good for the true buy-n-hold folks (ie most wealth mgmt), so they're smarter too. It seems like PE/activists get shit today for problems that have largely gone away.
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