I spent 18 months researching Founders Fund. "No Rivals" is the result. A 35,000-word series, released over the next four weeks. It’s a product of extensive research, interviews with more than a dozen key figures, and a detailed analysis of previously undisclosed returns.

religion and politics may be two big areas to find many such anti-memes from today's Infinite Loops 🎙 episode with Nadia Asparouhova and Jim O'Shaughnessy

LETS GOOOOOOO So excited for this Nadia Asparouhova 🫡 Well done Metalabel & Yancey Strickler

New favorite book just arrived Antimemetics, Nadia Asparouhova

Kevin Kwok Dan Romero It’s antimemtic girl summer, Nadia Asparouhova told me so

oh my god we’re in antimemetics rob hardy look!!

the best way to fight the constant pull of twitter is to always have a book you’re hooked on antimemetics by Nadia Asparouhova is my current one

Pretty excited to finally get my hands on Nadia Asparouhova’s new book. Beautifully designed. Can’t wait to read.

Something I'm worried about with AI is that it is the final boss of what Andy Matuschak calls "displacement behaviors, ways of not sitting with the problem." I see it in my own writing process. If I'm stuck, I'll just go over to ChatGPT or Claude and ask about something instead

I talked to Nadia Asparouhova about why ideas matter, how they infect us, and why attention is upstream of action. Nadia Asparouhova's new book Antimemetics is, to name a few things: - part-modern history and sociology of the public/private internet - part-framework for understanding

Ok, a few reflections on the book: 1. qntm defines antimemes as self-erasing information, but this book has a different (but related) definition of the concept: antimemes are (a) high-impact and (b) low transmissibility. Roughly, they are "important secrets". 2. The low

finally in possession of the two official books of the summer

halfway thru & love this book, brilliant work Nadia Asparouhova have been reading w one specific curiosity in mind - why is the joy of parenthood so antimemetic, especially in SF / tech circles? this concept has fascinated me ever since I became a mom. how could this thing that made my

this just showed up in my mailbox? i didn't order this

Until I read Nadia Asparouhova's Antimemetics, I didn't realize how well some topics hog my attention. Such topics are "supermemes" and they have a surprising ability to suck us in for prolonged periods. Think: war, wokeness, climate change, AI risk, birth rates, etc.

one way to understand the clash of the two cultures (SF vs NY) is that SF will tolerate bad writing if the ideas are good and NY will tolerate bad ideas if the writing is good

I often struggle to describe the unbounded upper value of attention without resorting to cliches. Packy does an incredible job of articulating it here:

I was talking to someone about how it’s healthy for creators not to read about themselves online. They pointed out it’s healthy for commenters, too! It’s weird for creators to pop into every convo about their work - ppl should have space to critique culture among themselves

.Nadia Asparouhova's Antimemetics asks a deceptively simple question: why do good ideas disappear? Her new book explores the post–Cold War promise of the open web, the rise of cancel culture, and why private group chats became popular. I wrote a short review:

the first, and maybe last, thing I’ll say about tech’s newfound love for building families