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The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 10 The Gish Gallop
THE PERFORMANCE The Gish Gallop is not a debate tactic. It is a denial-of-service attack on truth. The stated identity is “rigorous intellectual exchange.” The documented reality i…
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 09 The Three Hour Interview
THE PERFORMANCE They call it “the long-form conversation.” Three hours of unedited dialogue, they say, is how you get to the truth—how you escape the soundbite, the spin, the super…
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 08 Do Your Own Research
THE PERFORMANCE “Do your own research” sounds like an invitation to curiosity. It is not. It is a sales script. The phrase appears in the same breath as a link to a supplement stor…
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 07 Im Not Saying Im Just Saying
THE PERFORMANCE They call it “just asking questions.” They call it “exploring ideas.” They call it “intellectual humility.” What they are actually doing is selling deniability as a…
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 06 Just Asking Questions
THE PERFORMANCE They call it “just asking questions.” The pose is one of intellectual humility: I’m not saying anything, I’m merely inquiring. What if we’ve been lied to? What if t…
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 05 The Centrist Who Is Only Ever Centrist About One Side
THE PERFORMANCE The centrist does not believe in balance. He believes in performing balance—specifically, balance as a cudgel against one side. His signature move is to position hi…
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 04 The Self-Made Man Who Was Made by Every Institution He Criticises
THE PERFORMANCE The self-made man stands on stage, sleeves rolled up, voice rough with the gravel of authenticity. He tells you he clawed his way up from nothing—no handouts, no sa…
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 03 The Wide Reader Who Misreads Everything
THE PERFORMANCE They perform erudition. Not the slow, uncertain kind—the kind that comes from years of wrestling with a text, turning its contradictions over in your mind until the…
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 02 The Free Thinker Who Thinks What Everyone Around Him Thinks
THE PERFORMANCE The free thinker stands on stage, microphone in hand, and declares: "I don’t care what anyone thinks. I follow the truth wherever it leads." The crowd roars. He is …
The Performance Bros Gospel 101: Day 01 The Silenced Man With 50 Million Listeners
THE PERFORMANCE He calls it “the most censored man in America.” The phrase appears in his book, on his podcast, in interviews—always delivered with the same weary gravitas, as if t…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 30 We are the last line of defence against civilisational collapse
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 30 THE BELIEF We are the last line of defense against civilizational collapse—engineers, founders, and investors who have never governed…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 29 Techno-optimism means no limits
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 29 THE BELIEF Techno-optimism means no limits. The future is a blank canvas, and the only moral obligation of builders is to build—faste…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 28 Charter cities will solve governance
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 28 THE BELIEF Charter cities—autonomous zones governed by private contracts rather than national laws—are the future of governance. By i…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 27 Seasteading will create libertarian utopias
THE BELIEF Seasteading will create voluntary,stateless societies on the open ocean—free from regulation, taxation, and coercion. These floating cities will become laboratories for …
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 26 Free speech absolutism
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 26 THE BELIEF Free speech absolutism means defending open discourse without exception—until the speech in question threatens the company…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 25 We read the classics
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 25 THE BELIEF We read the classics—they read summaries of the classics, misquote them confidently, and have never encountered a classics…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 24 Psychedelics will produce the next breakthrough
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 24 THE BELIEF Psychedelics are the next frontier of human optimization—tools that unlock creativity, dissolve ego, and accelerate innova…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 23 Sleep is a lifestyle choice not a biological requirement
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 23 THE BELIEF Sleep is a lifestyle choice, not a biological requirement. The most successful founders and executives treat rest as a rel…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 22 The Singularity is near
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 22 THE BELIEF The Singularity—the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence, triggering runaway technological gro…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 21 Sam Altman is building AGI for humanity
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 21 THE BELIEF Sam Altman is building artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a gift to humanity, ensuring its benefits are shared by al…