Of failure. Of course the reality is the reverse. The more you post about failure. In one of the chapters i attended a conference, and one of the speakers there was a young man who boasted now he is the ceo of the work, the darling of Silicon Valley. But in his speech he boasted about being sued by record label for a quarter of a billion dollars is he had a company that legitimized. So the cult of failure is really one of the most irritating aspects. You have people like tim oreilly, very wellknown publisher. But the real truth is they are the winners. The real failure is people who dont have jobs, people who are not employed, people who are underemployed and can get in the college. They dont go around. Do you ever say you are a failure . I think this is one of the reasons why Silicon Valley is so profoundly out of touch with the rest of the world because it is the one sector and the American Economy that is doing well, the one sector driving innovation and change. When you have a cult
Like most of my best ideas, they didnt come from me. The original title, i cant say the original words because im sure this is a family show. But the original title was epic fail. We had a long conversation with my agent. At one point, morgan shouted that the internet is not the answer. So it wasnt my title unfortunately. Its a good title, isnt it . I wanted to ask about the whole chapter you talk about failing, failcon. What is that . Im sure you been to Silicon Valley. It is a place of cults. Its this ideal of failure. The bigger you are, the more you boast about failure. I attended a conference called failcon. One of the speakers was a young man who boasted he is now the current ceo of uber, the darling of Silicon Valley, a Company Worth 40 billion. But he boasted about being sued by record labels for a quarter of a trillion dollars because he had a Company Called scour which is essentially like napster, and legitimized the stealing of music. So the cult of failure is one of the mos
Touch with the rest of the world, because it is the one sector in the American Economy fortunately that is doing well. It is the one sector driving innovation, driving change. So when you have a cult of failure, it isnt great. What was your life like in london . My life in london was middleclass, jewish, north london for those of your viewers i dont know what the equivalent would be in new york. What is sort of a lower or middleclass neighborhood in new york . Brooklyn. My grandfather had come over from poland. He began in the east end of the docks, the old docks. He sold fashion fabric which was in those days most women made their own clothing. So he would wheel his card from the west end to the east end. Eventually, my family did better and they had a store on oxford street, which is a major shopping street. So i was lucky. I had quite a privileged upbringing. School, how much . Enough. I was at school at northland in high school and then i went to the university of london and i went
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Gorter responds with radical criticism to the reformist programme advocated by Lenin - i.e., for European communists to work within their Parliaments and existing unions.