The more we understand about the world around us, the less it seems we understand about people and the way they are. This post is an introduction to one man, named René Girard, who bucked this trend: his perception of the nature of behaviour is like a laser that goes right to the core of the human condition. We watch and learn by copying others, and the most important thing we learn from others is desire. Girard understood something important about desire; so did Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, and so do… Read more Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard →
——-> danco.substack.com <—— Guess what! Snippets is back. (It will probably need a new name though. Email me if you have suggestions. I’ve heard a couple good ones so far…) Thank you so much to all of you for reading my newsletter every week. I’m really lucky to have you all as an audience and I’m looking forward to keeping this newsletter going, both through paternity leave and beyond. Here’s what you can expect from this: -I will keep up the once a week newsletter schedule, and send it out… Read more Snippets 2.0 – it’s back, baby →
A major personal announcement: I’m moving on from Social Capital! I’m not leaving for any new opportunity in particular; instead I’m taking some time for parental leave, and my hope is to get lots of good writing done while I’m off. As of today, all of my writing going forward will be back on alexdanco.com (and stay tuned for a new newsletter as well…). In the meantime, here is the last issue of Snippets for Social Capital, which I’m reposting here for your reading: For my last Snippets, I want… Read more “I, too, am Contrarian”: moving on from Social Capital / final newsletter →
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