Building What Money Can’t Buy — The Anthology of Balaji
When you say progress here, what are you actually talking about? Is it just shorthand for economic growth or G.D.P.? What is progress? For, me it is something along the lines of our success in realizing a liberal, pluralistic and prosperous society, and a sense among people that their offspring can and probably will do better than they themselves h... See more
Ezra Klein • Opinion | We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity Prosper
So there are fundamentally two mindsets about the future. A pessimistic one where we see the Earth as finite in resources and conclude that we must limit ourselves. And an optimistic one where we see the Earth as finite in time and conclude that we must grow our knowledge towards infinity. The former mindset is not only uninspiring but will ultimat... See more
Albert Wenger • To Infinity and Beyond
The point of doing a startup is to build something you can’t buy. Today money can’t buy you a trip to Mars. Or a neural implant. Or a medical tricorder. In the not-too-distant past, money could not buy you a web browser, a search engine, or a smartphone. When the iPhone did not exist, people had to invent it.