Sublime

Economic security is acquiring sufficient assets—not income, but assets—such that the passive income they generate exceeds the level of spending you choose for yourself—your burn rate.

Society faces greater risks than you becoming a millionaire.

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I know we are wrong about the persistence of this moment. I try to convince myself what I tell my boys: this too shall pass. This book is an attempt to look beyond our unprecedented present and predict the future by creating it, catalyzing a dialog that crafts better solutions.

Pull up the screen time report built into your smartphone’s OS. How many hours do you spend on social media? What is your return, other than the dopamine hits from addiction engineered by thousands of programmers, product managers, and behavioral psychologists?

Investors are people with more money than time. Employees are people with more time than money. Entrepreneurs are simply the seductive go-betweens. Startups are business experiments performed with other people’s money. Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it. Company culture is what goes without saying. There are no real rules, only laws. Suc