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Another good one Packy. Inspiring!

As long as the values and principles of the Constitution are respected and protected, We the people will keep building things and developing this great country.

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Good one @packy - more like this.

I really enjoyed this. And some underrated/ underused points.

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This gets me SO fired up. Happy 4th!

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fire

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🇺🇸 motivational

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This is what I’m talking about! Future looks bright.

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Fantastic.

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Love it! That "Newsroom" scene was always a favourite so to revisit with this context was inspired.

I also really like the "an empire defined not by its ability to expand geographically to capture existing resources, but by its ability to expand technologically to create new ones".

Now that is a mission worth having! Happy 4th July USA.

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What a 4th July Manifesto

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I love this so much. thank you!

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Excellent article thx

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Thank you for this. With such a dysfunctional government and political leaders, it is easy to get pessimistic. We need to keep reminding ourselves of all the things that we are doing right while still trying to fix our problems.

I believe that it is time for us to embrace the progress-based perspective:

https://frompovertytoprogress.substack.com/p/a-manifesto-for-the-progress-based

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This is an incredibly depressing article that I unfortunately agree with.. This line hits particularly hard: "America is the only major “empire” in history whose entrepreneurial magnitude exceeds its government magnitude"

TL;DR: the American government (read: oligarchy) has failed, and it is up to the efforts of individuals to save themselves. Unfknbelievable.

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This would be more comforting if I had not also read the email from Benn Stancil about his foray into entrepreneurship being just about his wanting to be an important startup founder and not solving any real problem. A lot of the vast sums going into AI are for a solution in search of a problem that even some of the key AI people are worried we do not have enough control over.

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It took a good actor to deliver that speech with conviction but (probably pure dumb loyalty on the part of both Alan Sepinwall and myself) there is no way on this earth that Jon Hamm should have lost an Emmy for that.

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Great read, thanks Packy. Loved the section on Antifragility Through Entrepreneurship.

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