Sublime

MAKE OTHER PEOPLE WORK MORE

among the Silicon Valley set by Peter Thiel, our wants tend to be borrowed from other people.

If you’re looking toward the long-term goal of getting wealthy, you should ask yourself, “Is this authentic to me? Is it myself that I am projecting?” And then, “Am I productizing it? Am I scaling it? Am I scaling with labor or with capital or with code or with media?” So it’s a very handy, simple mnemonic. [78]

A New Philosophy

If you’re looking toward the long-term goal of getting wealthy, you should ask yourself, “Is this authentic to me? Is it myself that I am projecting?” And then, “Am I productizing it? Am I scaling it? Am I scaling with labor or with capital or with code or with media?” So it’s a very handy, simple mnemonic. [78]

Any society that obliges its institutions to provide for the individual pursuit of fulfillment by all citizens while simultaneously obliging its citizens to pursue fulfillment as an essential duty will thereby institute a positive-sum game of both excellence and fulfillment—as long as one crucial assumption holds: that anyone who achieves personal

Alexis de Tocqueville

Online: Marginal Revolution, Kottke.org, and Cool Tools (by Kevin Kelly, here).