Minsuk Kang 강민석

Here's an upper bound: Do what you love doesn't mean, do what you would like to do most this second . Even Einstein probably had moments when he wanted to have a cup of coffee, but told himself he ought to finish what he was working on first.

The incentives we bake into the products we build dictate which human desires we magnify. As we imagine new ways to create, distribute, monetize, and share information, we’re also revealing what kind of people we aspire to be.

Books that are “representative,” that are more easily “absorbed,” undermine the main reason to read them: to push readers beyond themselves in uncomfortable and productive ways.

Our reverence for independence takes no account of the reality of what happens in life: sooner or later, independence will become impossible. Serious illness or infirmity will strike. It is as inevitable as sunset. And then a new question arises: If independence is what we live for, what do we do when it can no longer be sustained?

Intellectual property doesn’t make sense. What makes sense is to stop trying to limit ideas about ideas. What makes sense is for all intangible creations of the human intellect to be free.