No Shame: The Rocket Internet Story

The German company-builder is shameless. That might be a good thing.

Few emotions are quite so human as shame. 

Simultaneously teacher and tyrant, shame is a corrective personally felt but collectively constructed. More than guilt, which separates person and deed, shame excoriates the individual not for what they’ve done, but for who they are, relative to the norms of their local context. There is a reason we hate to feel…