Introduction — The Anthology of Balaji

Reactive. Third, you can cooperate with hostile corporate journalists, like when Peter Thiel’s associates made the mistake of talking to a professional hater like Max Chafkin for his book-length attack. Positive. Finally, you can block all corporate journalists and instead just help positive people who get what you’re doing, like when Peter Thiel’s associates spoke with an intelligent writer like Jimmy Soni for his book-length exegesis. When enumerated this way, it seems obvious that you want some combination of 1, 2, and 4. But conflict is attention, and it’s very easy to just default into responding to negativity. This is partly because negativity is louder on the internet than positivity. Those who like what you’re doing will just hit the like button, but those who dislike it will send angry missives. To not get trapped in being reactive, you have to intentionally focus on the positive. And Eric Jorgenson is very positive, so I said—all right, write the book, and I’ll write the fore

Reactive. Third, you can cooperate with hostile corporate journalists, like when Peter Thiel’s associates made the mistake of talking to a professional hater like Max Chafkin for his book-length attack. Positive. Finally, you can block all corporate journalists and instead just help positive people who get what you’re doing, like when Peter Thiel’s associates spoke with an intelligent writer like Jimmy Soni for his book-length exegesis. When enumerated this way, it seems obvious that you want some combination of 1, 2, and 4. But conflict is attention, and it’s very easy to just default into re