📚 Currently reading: "Inventing the Renaissance" by Ada Palmer (opens in new tab)

A mere 50 pages in and I can already tell that Inventing the Renaissance will be a banger of a book. Three concepts in particular stood out for there relevance far outside that particular period in history: Legitimacy, why it is important to have it and how to obtain it. Marrying into a noble family, graduating from a well-known program, surviving a few years in big pharma/big tech, getting linked to by a major website, etc. Zombie ideas as wrong theories that lead to more research that leads...