Galen Wolfe-Pauly, CEO and co-founder of Tlon, drops by the Buntzcast for a stimulating chat about the promise of a decentralized internet. We talk about beauty in software, how Tlon is like a Japanese homeware store, if Tlon is really "neo-feudalism," and much more. Link below👇

T.S. Eliot echoes the Bhagavad Gita here, which reads: "Thy right is to work only, but never to its fruits; let the fruit of action be not thy motive, nor let thy attachment be to inaction."

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This is what went wrong with Bertrand Russell.

Guy who for his birthday just wants to force all his friends and family to watch his favorite YouTube videos for hours and hours

I did not know this

This is just a total coincidence, nothing to see here...

“When we search for the inner resources that the same mind can draw on in trying to deal with a demonic interpenetrating world, poetry takes on a new importance.” —Northrop Frye, A Study of English Romanticism

This might seem like a man set in his ways. But I explore a lot, those songs just don’t end up on the top list.

There are volumes of psychic biography contained in my top songs for the year:

the only way forward is to run illegal cinemas in disused industrial spaces

“Ah, but we die to each other daily. What we know of other people Is only our memory of the moments During which we knew them. . . . . . . We must also remember That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.” (T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party)

Once you see this you cannot unsee it and it's terrifying

Thanks for recording this for us Sam. Galen's ability to point out these weird truths that people don't (or forget to) perceive is great. Good listen.

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For me to like your fiction writing, I have to be able to tell that you’re a goofy goober - even when you’re being completely serious.

I liked Max wtf. Tarantino is full of bad takes.

But it does sound like this took a toll on him. So maybe it’s not contradicting Aaron at all actually.

Another POV on what writing feels like, from Flaubert (I actually haven’t read Madame Bovary, but somehow remembered this quote):

this is as real as it gets, folks

hear Galen on The Buntzcast talking about how Tlon is really just a digital Japanese homeware store

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