Tamara Winter
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@tamarawinter
Publisher @stripepress | Board @ifp + @joinFAI | Creator of TACIT, a mini-documentary series following master craftspeople at work
Congrats to @stripepress and @tamarawinter on selling 1M books!! That’s a lotta books!! 📚
1/ Today @stripepress is releasing the first two mini-documentaries in a series we’re calling Tacit. They’re vignettes of craftspeople who provide a pretty compelling answer to the question, “after AI, does mastery still matter?” This episode features Christophe Laudamiel, master perfumer at Osmo. Christophe is the creator or co-creator of dozens of scents, most notably, Polo Blue by Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie Fierce, and Tom Ford Amber Absolute. We spent a week with Christophe, following him from his office, to his home (which too, looks suspiciously like an office), observing him as he built fragrances essentially from scratch, isolated problematic notes (TIL: certain fragrance notes, when put together, can produce an unfortunate ‘wet dog’ smell), and even discovered new molecules. Christophe is an archetype of individual we’re obsessed with: *he’s* obsessed with mastery for its own sake. For the past 30 years he’s been at the forefront of perfumery, and now he wonders if and how computers can augment his craft.
"The Post-Individual" essay took me five years to research and write. It's about what happens when the individual stops being the center of society. We're still early in this shift. ystrickler.com/thepostindivid…
It’s sort of impossible to overstate the impact of Tyler on my life. My first job out of college was at @mercatus, and you can basically draw a straight line from there to Stripe Press (which I discovered because of Stubborn Attachments!).
Think it's worth saying a bit more about the breadth of Tyler Cowen's accomplishments. Each one of these alone would be enough to make most people's careers: 1. Marginal Revolution is the most successful econ blog of all time 2. Emergent Ventures has given grants to ~1,000 ambitious young people 3. Fast Grants awarded $50 million for COVID research 4. The Great Stagnation and other Cowen books continue to be influential 5. Conversations with Tyler has been one the best long-form interview podcasts for years 6. Between the e-learning platform (Marginal Revolution University) and the textbook (Modern Principles of Economics), he's one of the leading economics educators of his generation 7. GMU econ and Mercatus are vibrant intellectual communities and they wouldn't be what they are without Tyler The list could go on and on (his work with Derek Parfit, his culinary contributions, etc). But most of all, Tyler is a mensch. One of the most important things he does is "raise the aspirations of others." He did that for me, and for countless others.
Navy submarine officer turned founder @CameronLMcCord: "When you're 484 days underwater, you need to feel motivated and understand how what you're doing plays into a bigger picture. That's something I always try to do at @Nominal_io." The bigger picture is global resilience. Nominal is the infrastructure for the teams building for the physical world. We led Nominal's Series A and are doubling down on their $80M round led by @foundersfund at a $1B valuation. All systems Nominal. Watch GC's Paul Kwan in conversation with Cameron.
It's awesome how influencers and celebs have taken over every inch of film journalism. Want to moderate a Q&A? Sorry, you didn't do enough silly TikTok skits to be considered. Trying to make a measly few bucks on an interview? Whoops! We gave that spot to a makeup influencer
