Alex Dobrenko

But keep in mind that you definitely do not need to finish this book to start. Start as soon as you can. Start before you feel ready. Start today. You don’t learn, then start. You start, then learn.

I should just write down and publish all of the best ideas I’ve ever had, as quickly and casually as I can, in succession.

Nadia described the Dark Forest as representing the next era of the internet — where we are now. Where instead of seeking to maximize status — which some of us still do — more of us find ourselves seeking safety and context online instead.

Which is all to say: there is always something a little, well, dangerous, about the concept of originality: a danger that has been elided by our contemporary startup-statured culture, which holds as gospel that imitation is for normies, and innovation for the kind of geniuses most people now secretly believe themselves to be.