wealth distribution

let’s return to a recurring fixture in the startup/tech space, paul graham. previously I noted (https://plantimals.org/posts/how-you-know/) the idea of building up a mental model of some worthy personalities over time. if you have suggestions of people to follow over time, please engage with me on twitter @plantimals (https://twitter.com/plantimals).

my first encounter with graham was in 2005 when I heard a podcast recording of a talk he gave at oscon about startups. one of his opening riffs was on the topic of wealth distribution, or more specifically, the distribution of innovation. his point was that an uneven distribution was not in itself a good thing, but the sign of a good thing. that if everyone were equally innovative, it would not be so because everyone was thomas edison, but because there are no thomas edisons.