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An idea that the Benchmark partners taught me: in social networks, you want the celebrities to join at the end, not the beginning New networks should mint new celebrities, not get built by existing ones My interest in chain runners was low since it was (investor) celebrity led

An organization that does conventional goal-setting will have agreed on shared goals but not on the acceptable/unacceptable tradeoffs in achieving those shared goals.

Marketplaces that create entire new experiences for happiness, however, like Airbnb and Twitter and TikTok, can make users happier than any substitute simply because they can’t be cloned. These platforms aren’t merely letting users fix pain points with an interchangeable solution but offering up content that itself will give their lives added meeti... See more

The process of setting an objective, attempting to achieve it, and measuring progress along the way has become the primary route to achievement in our culture.

I don’t expect some technoutopian version of school where everyone is being taught online, sitting in their home learning in VR headsets to happen anytime soon. The burden on parents is too high, and the social function that schools perform (lunches, babysitting while parents work, etc) is too crucial.