My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energies where we don’t have a name for what you are doing, where it takes a while to explain to your mother what it is you do. When you are ahead of language, that means you are in a spot where it is mor

The most successful founders in history did not have the mimetic contagion gene that was in constant pursuit of social validation and that would have influenced them to build the things that everyone else was building