Borzou Azima

Founders, in my experience, tend to mistake “investing in” for “worth doing.”

Andreessen and Horowitz argued that,

“It is just as hard to start a small boutique thing that means nothing in the world and build it as it is to build a world dominating monster. It's no more work to do the latter, so we were never interested in anything but the latter.”

Imagination, self-confidence, strong nerves, and “a taste for life”—the qualities that Sagan lists as requirements for true laziness

Kind of Blue —the Miles Davis record that is typically considered the defining statement of post-bop modern jazz.

Coltrane recorded A Love Supreme

change would “disproportionately harm small investors, especially in middle America,” the National Venture Capital Association President Bobby Franklin said in a statement.

Conversation

Bryan Ward-Perkins in The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization illustrates how social, political and economic dynamism took a major hit in Western Europe with the Roman system’s collapse after 500 AD.

hunter-gatherers were the “original affluent society,” with subsistence requiring just some 3-5 hours of work per week. For Sahlins and his peers, agriculture ushered in a regime of ceaseless toil, one that has not been transcended by modern man’s 40-hour work week.

obesity has become a reliable marker of poverty