Ideas I want to write about

This is also why I hated the term "Web3". It implies that Web2 was going to be a subsection of the larger new Web3 internet we were migrating to. Which is wrong. And that's why I advocate for thinking about Crypto as an alternate timeline, or a division of the internet biological kingdom.

Gall’s Law:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

That sounds fine, wonderful — real nonsense. Do more. More nonsensical, more crazy, more machines, more breasts, penises, cunts, whatever — make them abound with nonsense. Try and tickle something inside you, your “weird humor.” You belong in the most secret part of you. Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world.

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Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says... See more

To opt out, though, is to be excluded.

“Please continue to carry out your activities with dignity, adhering to the philosophies that you hold dear.”

“Mediocre V.C.s want to see that your company has traction,” Doshi told me. “The top V.C.s want you to show them you can invent the future.”