Ben Cuan

And the way we fund this is primarily through US-based venture capital funding, which demands hockey stick growth in return.

All the focus goes into making hundreds of millions or ideally billions of dollars in profit to pay back their investors.

As a member of a team that's in the middle of doing this, I can say it affects every single decision... See more

No one is expecting you to be a great dancer at your wedding. No one is expecting your first business to be a billion dollar behemoth. No one is expecting you to be a great writer after your first article. No one, except your ego.

I know that having a healthy relationship with being obsessive about your work requires a baseline level of psychological safety.

Gaining agency is gaining the capacity to do something differently from, or in addition to, the events that simply happen to you.

As I’ve noted occasionally before, one of the most potentially useful things that academics do is preparing syllabi, and hence organizing information about the world.