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mediaman 11 hours ago

The problem with many of these kinds of works is that they are a product of a provincial SV mindset that is largely unaware of the broader world or anything at all outside of its cultural and economic ecosystem, so it winds up being a super narrow slice of conventional, mostly boring topics that everyone in SV rehashes over and over.

Wouldn't it be interesting to learn an influential work that changed how health care professionals run hospitals? Or a document that changed how mining works? A paper on Wright's theory of manufacturing scaling that explains the solar revolution? A thesis on how the world's factories moved from pneumatics to servo systems and why? How a policy thesis changed federal regulators' approach to approving rare disease drugs? Maybe Hayek's views on socialism and information theory, or perhaps an influential thesis on how antitrust monopoly regulation should work?

But instead it's a bunch of crypto and AI stuff that everyone in tech already knows about, rewarmed again for its hundredth serving.