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For human beings, simply put, the default state is happiness... [A]s long as their most basic needs are met—no immediate hunger, no immediate fear, no scary isolation, no physical pain or enduring sleeplessness—they live in the moment, perfectly happy... All you needed was no reason to be unhappy. Which is another way of saying: Happiness is the

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Research, I realized, is what happens as a byproduct when you try to understand something and hit the bounds of what humanity currently knows

However they pay for it, future students could find other drastic changes in the way their educations are delivered.

What we’ve done is really productize services. That was the sophisticated issue, which was to create a skew-like system, a true e-commerce experience, where you have a true catalog of productized services.

One reason this is personally interesting to me is that I sense a comparable network happening here at Substack, where a huge amount of the value created is flowing to the creators. Now, it's true Substack authors don't participate in the enterprise value of Substack, Inc, but theoretically that could be part of the package through more traditional... See more