Monitoring the Situation #3: Who Is Nick Land?
Episode
52 min
Read time
2 min
Topics
Fundraising & VC, Leadership, Philosophy & Wisdom
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What It Covers
Base Power CEO Zach Dell discusses energy storage solutions and grid modernization, followed by analysis of philosopher Nick Land's influence on Silicon Valley accelerationist thinking.
Notable Moment
Eddie Lazarin explains that most Silicon Valley builders live in technological culture like fish in water, without explicitly philosophical motivations despite their grand world-changing ambitions.
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