the deep-seated biases that celebrate immigrant food, so long as it’s affordable
I can't say enough how true this is
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- Jun 2020
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www.sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com
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www.eater.com www.eater.com
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the best seeds for crops traditionally grown in Asia
Asian american culture <-> Asian American cuisine <-> Asian American crops
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A lot of green vegetables were part of their cuisine
Same as in Cambodia
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emergencemagazine.org emergencemagazine.org
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“microbial terroir”
concept note?
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a fairy-tale story of two types of species finding the perfect symbiosis in each other.
"simple" co-evolution in the end
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All of a sudden, all of these doors led to more doors.
Opening up connections that weren't explored before?
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what else can we make a sauerkraut from?”
At its core a very scientific way of thinking about it (the scientific wonder)
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www.theobservereffect.org www.theobservereffect.org
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we make food like crazy.
yeah, still not enough outside the US though
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‘strong views weakly held’
Not a statement or a mode of functioning but a practice
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It's really an interesting question as to why that's the case.
Worth pondering -> concept note
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The problem of having to finish every book is you’re not only spending time on books you shouldn’t be but it also causes you to stall out on reading in general.
Concept note + add to "How to Read"
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And then somebody gives you big things/new areas. I call them “things from the future”.
Worth a concept note
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It's basically trying to try to fill in all the puzzle pieces for the big discrepancies.
Seems like a common theme with how Bill Gates and others also read a ton, to fill in a framework
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There’s no mountain top dammit! Keep me off the mountaintop!
Marc doesn't exactly like the usual SV practices
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I'm involved in a fair amount of management stuff for the firm but it's stuff that we cover in our internal meetings.
But key difference = no direct contact with the people, just high-level stuff
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If part of your job is to deal with a large amount of incoming, you actually need to respond in a timely manner and not let people down.
Basically as soon as your job is to deal with significant amounts of other people (could be sales, fundraising, high-level management...)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s open calendar
Basically: don't schedule any meetings, calls, whatever, just tell people to drop by or call you and you'll see them if you can
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‘entrepreneur mode’
Key concept
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