Enlightenment
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
the a16z Podcast
2 statements about Enlightenment, every show
Mokyr: Scientific co-authorship was rare during early modern knowledge creation
“Much of the knowledge created at that time is created by single individuals. There's not that much collaboration, you know, co-authorship, and these are multiple names on papers and books that we see today, that wasn't very much, that was quite uncommon in tho…”
Ravikant: No one reaches enlightenment or does serious internal work in groups
“Nobody reaches enlightenment or internal happiness or does serious internal work in group settings. It is a very lonely kind of task. And so to some extent, I think that people who are constantly looking for social affirmation in their internal work, aren't th…”