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Many people are surprised to find out that in the United States, one of the strongest “wage‑based societies” in the world, only about 40% of adult Americans, or 106 million people, have jobs where they work more than 35 hours per week.
What is technology? It’s technique. It’s the way we all do things. And when you discover a way to do things, its value is multiplied by all who use it. It is the proverbial fishing rod rather than the fish. That’s the difference between a startup and a restaurant or a barber shop. You fry eggs or cut hair one customer at a time. Whereas if you
... See moreYour passions should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you. Work for something much larger than yourself.
The way you choose to suffer is uniquely yours: “The fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets… emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent” – Haruki Murakami
I developed the governing impression that our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability.