Life Path Advice

There's nothing I revile quite as much as a dilettante. I don't like doing something to a mediocre level. It's great to be 70, because you really get to preach with some authority:

Get good at something. That's it. Everything else is bullshit.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Rather than hoping to create a harmonious union between the pursuit of money and values, we might have better luck trying to combine values with talents. This idea comes courtesy of Aristotle, who is attributed with saying, ‘Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.’

“The world reveals itself to those who walk” — Werner Herzog

Most times, the best way to create value is to double down on the domain-specific insights you’ve collected over your entire career.

—Nikita Bier