the context of ambition

this is really old – what was the point of this? this was pre-Purusha… 2017-ish?

Venkat already wrote a substantial amount of this here https://web.archive.org/web/20120908012847/http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/04/entrepreneurs-are-the-new-labor-part-iii/3 

so what next? this then becomes an essay about… the context of ambition? 

My first novel is going to be about the local music scene. My second novel might be about the local startup scene. I’m not in any particular rush to do this. I’m not particularly crazy-excited about it. But it IS something that I’m embedded in. (I’m thinking now about that guy who wrote a book about how video games are made, and posted a chapter as an essay on a news site. That’s how you promote your books. If you’re going to promote your book about startups you may want to write articles about startups. Man, that sounds so fun, and such an honor/privilege.) 

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There’s a great essay to be written about how so many people are basically living off of VCs. just found out an old friend of mine who was a history major ended up doing a GA course and is now totally hashtag UX. VCs are fuelling a modern renaissance. n a sense. they’re the modern borgias and whatnot 

i was thinking about how people wish that corporates would spend more on charity, but imagine if they took away funding for uber, etc. I guess what I find interesting is how it shapes modern meaning-making, culturally. it now “means something” to be a “freelance UX designer”. in a way that wasn’t true 10 yrs ago 

the borgias / medicis were about creating for status though. VCs are about creating in pursuit of portfolio return. but I suppose the means are the same 

[3:02 PM] Visakan Veerasamy: paktor raised 32.5m, what. (fake profiles)

DF: in general you should ignore fundraising news in SEA. it’s such a noisy ecosystem. it’s easy to raise money because there’s so many dumb rich people. “dumb” = ill-informed / they are so rich that the money is irrelevant to them 

[3:03 PM] Visakan Veerasamy: ^ I think that’s the heart of it 

“i find it hard and painful to believe that so many people are involved in spending so many hours of their lives putting postits on walls and then coming up with audio reminders at escalators and pop-up menus that disappear when you want to click them and ‘forget password’ buttons where the ‘log in’ buttons should be”