Choose Good Quests - Founders Fund

Start out with some end-state of the world you’d like to achieve; for example, youth extension, people on Mars, or building new cities. Your goal doesn’t have to be that ambitious. Usually it springs from some passion—often a positive passion, but sometimes a negative passion. For example, you might hate the way healthcare insurance works and try t

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This glorification of action over thought is reflected in Silicon Valley's culture and canonical texts. Books like Zero to One or essays like It's Time to Build emphasize the urgent need to create, innovate, hack, and iterate on products with vast social consequences, rather than the responsibility of technologists to pause, reflect, and introspect... See more

The world is filled with good quests that require massively leveled heroes to complete: semiconductor manufacturing, complex industrial automation, natural resource discovery, next-generation energy production, low-cost and low-labor construction, new modes of transportation, general artificial intelligence, mapping and interfacing with the br

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