Escalate - Pete's Newsletter - Issue #44
New Post
Speed wins in startups. But how should sales teams at startups leverage speed?
Essays
These two essays provide a foundation for thinking about— what happens now?
To me, the state of things is like when a baby won't nap. You think you can step in, rock the baby back to sleep, and magically get the day back on track. But that's not how things work, instead things spiral from there.
This essay explains why the baby won't sleep. (written pre-pandemic)
The details of their shouting are different, but they’re all shouting – at least in part – because stuff isn’t working for them within the context of the post-war expectation that stuff should work roughly the same for roughly everyone.
This essay explains how and why things escalate out of control, more quickly, and oddly than we can comprehend.
Feedback loops – where one event fuels the next – often lead to that kind of bewilderment.
Find a feedback loop and you will find people who underestimate how crazy prices can get, how famous a person can become, how hard it can be to change people’s minds, how irreparable a reputation can be, and how tiny events can compound into something huge.
Related: The future does not fit in the containers of the past, the paradox of tolerance and Paul Graham's essay on independent thinking.
Cool
This website renders and draws all the roads in a city. Fun to play around with. Enter any address.
Music
Julian Lage is a guitarist from Santa Rosa. His instrumental tracks are perfect for a Sunday. Check out his version of Roy Orbison's Crying.