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by deburo 73 days ago
Which makes me curious about what Marc actually meant. The quote itself raises eyebrows.

EDIT: From checking in with Claude about his talk.

> So the thing he was arguing against was specifically what he sees as a modern therapeutic culture — the expectation that people should examine their motives, feel guilty about their actions, and look backward. He wasn't framing it as a philosophical position so much as a practical one about founder effectiveness.

https://claude.ai/share/9c5611f7-fd0e-4f76-bd39-e1129c035a4f

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Yes, the article is deliberately misconstruing that.

The author says outright in her comments that the aim is not to engage with what Marc actually meant, but to chastise him for bad thoughts expressed on Twitter:

“I get where you’re coming from - and I’m not sure I’d disagree with Marc, if that were the point he made. But his hours // days long crash out on Twitter I think made it clear that a lack of introspection was certainly at work…”