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What does designing for life mean in practice? Who is doing it? How we can help? I write, talk, and advise. We also host offsite/retreats here in France .

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1 Aug 2083430589437219165

where "Eternal" = 99 days. (This is one of the grotseques who tried to steal football itself).

Joshua Kushner @JoshuaKushner

Today we announce Thrive Eternal, a permanent capital holding company that will be concentrated in a small number of assets that we can own and steward over many decades.

Across Thrive Capital and Thrive Holdings, we are building and investing through a moment of exponential
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31 Jul 2083209393026331058

Yehwan Song dismantles the contemporary obsession with “liquidity” as a metaphor, not by pointing out the material infrastructures of the internet but by positing laborious, physical sculpture as a “corrective” to the myth of frictionless societies.

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Yehwan Song’s “The Other Internet” - Criticism - e-flux

We’re all familiar with liquidity as the signature aggrandizing metaphor of the contemporary internet: endless flows, ins

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30 Jul 2082940262506996193

The chances of a rabbit kicking you off your scooter are incredibly low… but never zero 😭

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31 Jul 2083143620060700933

This is the same @jpmorgan executive who has led the Fifa deal to sell football to the Kushners

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

Mary Erdoes, a bank executive at JPMorgan Chase, said she had been made aware of Jeffrey Epstein’s status as a sex offender but didn’t think it was her job to remove him as a client. https://wapo.st/3IJLiJH
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