Why competing in the arena of ideas is harder than competing in markets
abhiadesai · x · 2026-10-31
Markets pit you against roughly similar contemporary players in the current time period, but the arena of ideas forces competition with all thinkers across history — which, the author argues, is why most attempts at competing there fail.
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