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Peter Ormerod

@EntsPeter

Author of David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God, out January 15 2026 via Bloomsbury | Ents editor for NationalWorld

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Peter Ormerod
Peter Ormerod@EntsPeter·
It's an honour to have my book reviewed by the great Simon Critchley in today's @guardian And as for the review itself, it's beyond anything I could have dreamed of
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I know I'm probably the only remaining combatant in the Southgate Wars but still
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@FootballCliches *Astounded* by the number of people who aren't getting the reference here. Astounded and disappointed
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Adam Hurrey
Adam Hurrey@FootballCliches·
Four out of six English clubs dumped out of the Champions League last 16 by an aggregate score of 28-11. In the immortal words of Alan Hansen and Jimmy Hill, on this very day, 30 years ago:
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@MadsDavies They do a good job with their variety of music, I think. And Pray As You Go got me very into the monks of Keur Moussa!
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
This was the music on Pray as you Go on Monday. The Kyiv Chamber Choir singing The Creed. “I believe in one God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.” youtube.com/watch?v=_HOEkp…
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Peter Ormerod
Peter Ormerod@EntsPeter·
@WalkerMarcus Pretty sure they've published other stories too. This was written by an East Midlands reporter for one of their local news sections.
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Madeleine Davies
Madeleine Davies@MadsDavies·
Looking for interviewee! I'm hoping to speak to someone who has come to consider themself a "cultural Christian"- appreciating the civilisational and moral inheritance of Christianity without affirming belief in God. madeleine(at)churchtimes.co.uk
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David Senra
David Senra@davidsenra·
Great men of history had little to no introspection. The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself. @pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about: David: You don't have any levels of introspection? Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible. David: Why? Marc: Move forward. Go! I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home. David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection. Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self. He just woke up and was like: I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again. Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective. All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff. The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology. And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual. We need to criticize the individual. The individual needs to self criticize. The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past. It never resonated with me.
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My conversation with Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder of @a16z and Netscape. 0:00 Caffeine Heart Scare 0:56 Zero Introspection Mindset 3:24 Psychedelics and Founders 4:54 Motivation Beyond Happiness 7:18 Tech as Progress Engine 10:27 Founders Versus Managers 20:01 HP Intel Founder Legacy 21:32 Why Start the Firm 24:14 Venture Barbell Theory 28:57 JP Morgan Boutique Banking 30:02 Religion Split Wall Street 30:41 Barbell of Banking 31:42 Allen & Company Model 33:16 Planning the VC Firm 33:45 CAA Playbook Lessons 36:49 First Principles vs. Status Quo 39:03 Scaling Venture Capital 40:37 Private Equity and Mad Men 42:52 Valley Shifts to Full Stack 45:59 Meeting Jim Clark 48:53 Founder vs. Manager at SGI 54:20 Recruiting Dinner Story 56:58 Starting the Next Company 57:57 Nintendo Online Gamble 58:33 Building Mosaic Browser 59:45 NSFnet Commercial Ban 1:01:28 Eternal September Shift 1:03:11 Spam and Web Controversy 1:04:49 Mosaic Tech Support Flood 1:07:49 Netscape Business Model 1:09:05 Early Internet Skepticism 1:11:15 Moral Panic Pattern 1:13:08 Bicycle Face Story 1:14:48 Music Panic Examples 1:18:12 Lessons from Jim Clark 1:19:36 Clark Versus Barksdale 1:21:22 Tesla Versus Edison 1:23:00 Edison Digression Setup 1:23:13 AI Forecasting Myths 1:23:43 Edison Phonograph Lesson 1:25:11 Netscape Two Jims 1:29:11 Bottling Innovation 1:31:44 Elon Management Code 1:32:24 IBM Big Gray Cloud 1:37:12 Engineer First Truth 1:38:28 Bottlenecks and Speed 1:42:46 Milli Elon Metric 1:47:20 Starlink Side Project 1:49:10 Closing Includes paid partnerships.

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Richard Howarth
Richard Howarth@rfh21·
@EntsPeter @derekclarksport It’s odd that as the European Cup it was distinct - a cup for league champions. But once renamed the Champions League, it then became very important that the big brands were there as often as possible, hence the extra places for the big leagues and loads more money.
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Peter Ormerod@EntsPeter·
@DavidBowieGlam Thanks for sharing this! The whole thing is great but the Christianity stuff is particularly fascinating for me at least
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Peter Ormerod@EntsPeter·
It was such a pleasure to be invited to speak about my book at St Mark's in Leamington - it's a really important place for me (and for many others, I'm sure). Great questions from the reverend vicar and the audience. The video has just been published - see the link below
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(Obvs interested in other thoughts and theories too of course)
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Peter Ormerod@EntsPeter·
So I reckon it's sort of magical realism filtered through something like quantum theory. A bit like the worlds of His Dark Materials. It's such a great series!
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Peter Ormerod@EntsPeter·
I might have gone off on one completely here, and maybe I'm late to this and others have come up with the same theory, but I have thoughts about Small Prophets and the clue is in this picture from the final episode
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Nina Power
Nina Power@Nina_Power_·
We need to defend liberal values (e.g. free speech, women's rights, gay rights) against those who would illberally remove them (whether Fabian or Islamist). The discussion about whether and how much Britain is or should be Christian and our pagan past can wait, e.g. we need to defend the possibility of having that discussion first, as liberals.
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Nina Power
Nina Power@Nina_Power_·
We can have the paganism, Christianity, liberalism discussion...later, but in the meantime, we are all of these things, and we are not, and never have been, and never shall be, anything else. Stop the experiment.
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