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Some thoughts on @lukeburgis post on linking 0 to 1 and Wanting.
"My hope is to bring the book into contact and conversation with other books and thinkers in order to uncover the many layers of meaning found within it." - Luke
My thoughts 👇
@lukeburgis 1. We've replaced true learning through imitation of ritual. Think going to the forum, or attending church in prayer (center of town), or meditation with 'expert' driven top down imitation of empty actions driven by pure mimesis.
@lukeburgis 2. You can not teach entrepreneurship, just like you can't teach having deep relationships, having faith, or any other thick desire. You can give the framework of ritual and allow for ideation along that path.
@lukeburgis 3. 'Technology' and moreover creation is rooted in the first psychotechnology, language. Reality as such lives in language, true creation is giving language to the unnamed, it's a process of remembering not a true process of 'creation' as we think of it.
@lukeburgis Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Proverbs 18:21

What we call God is the ineffable. Every time we 'create' we update our frame and give language to something that just has not been discovered. (or remembered)
@lukeburgis 4. Sex and startups are intertwined here (it feels to me). When done serving the above creation, they are both going 0-1 and 1-n.
We are each unique but are all human beings, just like Google is not Amazon but both are companies.
@lukeburgis The anti-mimetic action and mimetic action both look similar on the surface but have very different drivers and outcomes.
Both have an opportunity to create, but only one 'renews' both participants and the world as such.
@lukeburgis 5. The founder has to be a maverick because the 'best' practices are borrowed from models that are broken. See above on 'experts'.
@lukeburgis Deep rituals exist, and have existed for far longer than the cheap mimetic models we have now. I'm actually certain that the 'new and untried paths' Peter talks about are actually much older than he thinks. What paths did Plato walk or the writers of the 'Epic of Gilgamesh'.
@lukeburgis “Life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands.” ~2100 BC

What else are we discovering now that is actually just remembering?
@lukeburgis 6. Technology as miracles is great, but have you ever had a beer with a doula?
I do think that true transcendent technology is akin to a spiritual experience where something deeper is being channeled, and is in conversation with the ineffable.
@lukeburgis "Modern man can't see God because he doesn't look low enough" - Jung

There are miracles all around us we just don't realize it.

This last piece is beautifully written.
@lukeburgis “Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” — Luke 23:43

“My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” — Mark 15:34

“It is finished.” — John 19:30

3 of Jesus' words on the cross.
At the end what is left?
@lukeburgis The Philosophy of Zero to One: #1, by @lukeburgis read.lukeburgis.com/p/the-philosophy-of-zero-to-one-1?r=5c129&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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