# Venture Altruism: a critique of pure Effectiveness

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Mike Elias]]
- Full Title: Venture Altruism: a critique of pure Effectiveness
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://mikeelias.substack.com/p/venture-altruism-a-critique-of-pure

## Highlights
- The human will seems to follow paths of least resistance, like electricity, or water flowing downhill. When you want something for its own sake, it carves a path of least resistance that leads you to it:
- But it seems self-evident that only breakthrough divergences from mainstream thinking could hope to yield breakthrough effectiveness by comparison. That means asking questions like, “Are there any scientific paradigm shifts hiding in plain sight?”