Luke Burgis

“The most important thing I think we can do is rather than try to solve the problem through some kind of a top-down system or reorg or something like that, or, you know, implementing new rules and policies. Is simply finding a model and putting a positive model…”

“That's one way to determine, I think, a thick desire is are you ever able to satiate it? If you can't satiate it, there's probably something really, really deep well there that you can just continue to go down.”

“Mimetic desire means that a person's choice of an object is not determined by the object itself, But is fundamentally, or at least mostly determined by a third person or a third party, which is a mediator or model of desire. So there's always sort of a hidden …”

“Obviously, like a big figure you know, a CEO with a larger than life personality will have an outsized effect, right? But I promise you that in most places, there's very junior people that do too. And the people that revolve around them, they sort of become th…”

“There are some things that I usually call thick desires in opposition to thin desires, which are the more sort of mimetic ones that can change on a dime. And I think cultivating those is important and finding out what those enduring Thicker desires are begins …”

“There's sort of like these emergent, there's emergent knowledge, frankly that Relied on a decision. So, I mean, how often is that the case where we have to make one decision in order to learn the next thing or to even learn the benefits of that thing?”

“The desire alone is not enough. The stool cannot stand unless there's the discipline and unless there's the ritual. And one of the things that ritual represents for me is memory. Is, is, is, is memory, right? It reminds us why we were doing the things that we'…”