Samo Burja
medium.com/@samo.burja · Personal blog · on HN since 2018
Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis, writes on institutions, founders, political stability, and history, including Great Founder Theory.
What HN saysHN links it for his "live player" concept, applied to Google's ability to follow through, and for his Great Founder Theory and Roman succession essays.
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Most-shared posts
- 1The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer5 people · 11 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 2Great Founder Theory2 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 3Live versus Dead Players2 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 4What Botswana Can Teach Us About Political Stability1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 5Eight Books to Read – Samo Burja1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 6Institutional Failure as Surprise1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 7Functional Institutions Are the Exception1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 8The family that finances sweden 8441c8a6dc5a1 people · first shared 2023
- 9How roman emperors handled the succession problem 730f15b812f1 people · first shared 2019
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mellosouls · 2023-08-14
Announcement page, actual document is linked at the end of the advert. (2020, pdf). Not sure why the author prefix is in the title here.
https://samoburja.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Great_Founder_Theory_…
A non-pdf introduction to it here:
https://medium.com/@samo.burja/great-founder-theory-93751e25c173
lazzlazzlazz · 2020-08-15
Ten years ago it would've been inconceivable to me, but I have to admit that my default assumption is that Google cannot follow through on any of its projects. It is no longer a "live player"[1] and lumbers along purely on its draining intellectual endowment and incumbency.
Network effects and increasing anti-competitive practices will keep Google at the top for years to come, but without a cultural reinvention it cannot possibly regain the prestige it once held as an institution.
[1] https://medium.com/@samo.burja/live-versus-dead-players-2b24f6e9eae2
jdmoreira · 2023-04-01
I could. I have zero attachment to places. But it would be though on my wife and daughter (who both are Swedes, I'm the only immigrant)
And not everyone is equally poor. Sweden has one of the highest number of Billionaires per capita in Europe.
In fact wealth inequality (not income inequality) is almost as high as russia.
Source: https://medium.com/@samo.burja/the-family-that-finances-sweden-8441c8a…
jhallenworld · 2019-11-26
One part of it was that times were better when emperors were selected based on ability instead of by heredity.
https://medium.com/@samo.burja/how-roman-emperors-handled-the-successi…
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Five-Good-Emperors