Unsure about the saying “retards in motion vs. geniuses at rest” but working with founders across all spectrums, I’ve seen a recurrent trait, which is the distortion of reality that they create around them. Whether a genius or a retard, thinking you can challenge the incumbents or change the fabric of society is all of the distortion you need to lead talent to victory outside of execution / domain expertise / obsessive etc

unstable government: jev + claude type a terrible law. claude invents reactions and directs the set pieces. jev decides how each of 40 citizens responds. the town sim plays those choices out, then prints the disaster as tomorrow’s front page. fun.

Unsealed for the First Time in over 600 Years, This Tomb in Peru Was Just Declared the ‘Discovery of the Decade’. Archaeologists excavating Chan Chan, the capital of the pre-Inca Chimú civilization, found an undisturbed mausoleum that held the remains of at least 38 individuals, as well as a trove of rich funerary goods.