Blake Scholl Quotes

It always amazes me how cell service inversely correlates with neighborhood quality.

Rich people: I don’t want your ugly cell tower
Also rich people: why doesn’t my phone work?

We need more YIMBYs

If you insert enough socialism in capitalism but keep calling it capitalism, people get fed up with the problems socialism causes but blame capitalism and then turn socialist.

On any given topic, the most important question to ask is: “what are the most important questions?” Always ask this and prioritize before jumping in.

It’s surprisingly easy to ask a question no one knows the answer to. I was lucky to learn early in life how easy it is to skate to the frontiers of human knowledge.

I’ve found curtain dealers can be kinda shady.

Unpopular opinion: self-made billionaires are great. More people should aspire to that level of value creation.

When you read a quote from somebody, do you hear it in their voice?

Pretty soon, driving yourself will be as absurd and illegal as riding a pony on the interstate.

Just like there are places where people who love horses can go ride them, there will be places for humans who like to drive cars to drive.

Unpopular opinion: we should have more toll roads. In fact, every road should be a toll road.

Get rid of every other road tax and charge for usage. Rush hour usage should have surge pricing. This is the only scalable solution for traffic congestion.

Pro tip: if you are ambitious and driven you will always work hard. So work on the biggest idea you can imagine. The effort is the same but the rewards are much, much better.

PS my first company was a barcode scanning game.

One of the side benefits of the mass adoption of LCD screens is that new generations grow up without the idea Gauss is a bad thing you have to get out of your CRT monitor

Defensiveness is a learning disability. If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, it’s impossible to learn and grow.

Aeroelastics make my heart flutter

Entrepreneurs should have high tolerance for pain and low tolerance for annoyance. Much opportunity lies in solving what others find annoying—and much pain must be tolerated on the path to success.

If you want to go to a restaurant, you get reservations. If you don’t want to go, you have reservations.