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On Grindslop - by Will Manidis - Minutes

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Notes on founder hagiography and aristocratic virtue

A podcaster recently posted about a founder that he had just interviewed. The founder was the most hardcore founder he’s ever encountered after decades of chronicling the most hardcore founders. Each detail was more extreme than the one that came before it, enumerated in the way that a medieval chronicler would escalate the mortifications of the saints until the congregation was sufficiently prostrate that the church floorboards were bending under them. The company works seven, maybe even eight days a week. The founder lives, sleeps, and eats in his office. He built a cafe inside because…

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