Eli
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Eli
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On people who are INTO it:
Have you ever had the experience, Jerry asks, where you look at something and go, ‘Wow, whoever made that—they were INTO it!’? “That’s what I care about. That’s all I care about. I don’t care about traits or techniques, I don’t care what you do or how you do it—I just want to see people and talk to people and be around
... See moreThe Satoshi mic drop is the greatest entrepreneurial act I have ever witnessed. They created what has become a 1.4 Trillion economy and then just walked away. They gave it to the world and said "it is yours". -Fred Wilson AVC May 23, 2024
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― James Baldwin
“Work expands so as to fill up the time available for its completion.”
I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. The experts don’t know, the ministers, the therapists, the magazines, the authors, my parents, my friends, they don’t know. Not even the folks who love me the most. Because no one has ever lived or will ever live this life I am attempting to live, with my gifts and challenges
... See moreIt seems rarely to occur to us, or rather we are encouraged to forget that much of the joy and satisfaction we might find in this world may stem from our purposeful involvement in the sorts of tasks we are told to see as mundane, trivial, and inconvenient.