Stripe CEO reading Dostoevsky sparks debate: fast feedback loops explain effective operators
floguo · x · 2026-11-11
Patrick Collison's post on The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky was Einstein's, Freud's, Clinton's and Murakami's favorite; Collison admits he didn't love it) drew disbelief that a CEO has time to read. nosilverv's rejoinder: the same operators who read novels also text back fastest — short feedback loops turn ideas into causal models that track reality, while unacted ideas balloon into castles in the air. floguo amplifies the take.
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