Which book? OP seems to be referencing _Going Infinite_ which is widely regarded as a bad take[1], while the card game you reference seems to be Liar's Poker, from Lewis' book of the same name.
Don’t know anything about YC’s business model or the direction they want to grow.
But the community is very thoughtful & already here. I think a HN SM App, whether part of their present business plan or not would have some mass appeal.
Just probably isn’t something they necessarily want to do
I'm happier just running an Elgg instance on a cloud server and inviting the people I know to post there. 10-12 people sharing shit they found elsewhere and starting conversations is more than enough for me.
There is the book that the linked review is covering, The Letters of Gustave Flaubert by NYRB publishing, which covers a lot of his life.
Another is Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence from 1993, which is a selection of letters between Flaubert and George Sand.
If you can read french, the Rouen collection is probably the most complete, but there are other french collections. If you're just looking to start with Flaubert in general you can start with Mme. Bovary, rightly regarded as one of the best novels ever. Flaubert's control over his sentences, the breathtaking style, is incredible to read.
is this the same game played by FTX sam in that Michael Lewis crypto biopic ??