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Idea Gallery is about finding durable ideas and using them to illuminate our lives.

The Idea Gallery
A Theater of Timeless Ideas

Sep 28
Sep 28 IG #10: In Defense of Private Equity

Benjamin Rudman

Plus: Information transfer via speech, prioritizing tasks, and liberalism

Sep 21
Sep 21 IG #9: The Biggest Challenge in Food, Part II

Benjamin Rudman

Sep 9
Sep 9 IG #8: Stakeholders vs. Shareholders

Benjamin Rudman

Plus: Reading and Writing Thoughtfully.

Sep 1
Sep 1 IG #7: Raising Capital in the Food Space

Benjamin Rudman

Plus: Markets are Eating the World & the Decline of American Investment

Aug 24
Aug 24 IG #6: The Biggest Challenge in Food

Benjamin Rudman

Aug 18
Aug 18 IG #5: Data Vs. Gut

Benjamin Rudman

Aug 11
Aug 11 IG #4: There is no skill called "Business"

Benjamin Rudman

Aug 4
Aug 4 IG #3: Strategy, Finance, Physics, Nihilism

Benjamin Rudman

Jul 27
Jul 27 IG #2: Practice, Trends, and the End of the World

Benjamin Rudman

Jul 22
Jul 22 IG #1: Why I'm Doing This

Benjamin Rudman
 
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It may seem cliché, but being a person is about more than “finding your passion” and zeroing in on the path to success. We live in a world governed by laws. There are physical laws, moral laws, laws of logic and reason. The evidence is all around us. The more broadly we study, the more we understand how the world works, not through the accumulation of facts in sheer quantum, but through pattern recognition. The notion of discrete academic discipline is a human construct. The fabric of reality underlies all fields, and the more we study the fabric, the better we recognize its manifestation in our daily lives.

Heraclitus said “no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” Everything in life brings a new challenge, often not because life is in itself challenging, but because we are on a journey from babies to mature men and women. That is the point of every IG. If I can, I’ll try to reduce the fraction as much as possible so it’s obvious how these things all fit together. If I fail, at least we are storing ideas on the wall (like a gallery) to look at and admire later in light of new situations. For the river may have changed, but with every new idea on the wall, so have you.

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