“an ambitious person on an optimal trajectory will often read to the system as an instance of breakage.” – http://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

 “Let me break it down for you. In good organizations, people can focus on their work and have confidence that if they get their work done, good things will happen for both the company and them personally. It is a true pleasure to work in an organization such as this. Every person can wake up knowing that the work they do will be efficient, e

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Which is -- you know, like check it out,  I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book,

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