#269 Dwarkesh Patel: Competitive friendships, institution degradation, internet studying vs college

“Great Founder Theory... you have these great founders who build a country or who build a company, and when they set it up, there's a living conscious person who has thought about these structures... the institutions degrade over time as there's not like a live person who's coordinating.”

“You see the scar tissue that happens at a large corporation because somebody does something wrong... and now you start stacking bureaucracy on in order to be able to get rid of these problems. And that becomes so much scar tissue that the organization can no longer move.”

“Great Britain, at its peak in 1870, controlled a quarter of the world's land, a quarter of the world's GDP, a quarter of the world's people... Apple is twice as big as the British Empire was at its peak.”