don't feel like you're doomed to fail if you're not sure on day 1 that you want to be running a public company. Not being sure of that is if anything… - Paul Graham

and for the same reason, as a bunch of guys who get together to go hunting. They don’t actually hate you. They just need something to chase.

Idea: Adversarial rendering. Builders proposing a new project should have to release enough of their design files for third parties to create renderings of what the project will actually look like.

Money is a side effect of specialization. In a specialized society, most of the things you need, you can’t make for yourself. If you want a potato or a pencil or a place to live, you have to get it from someone else. How do you get the person who grows the potatoes to give you some? By giving him something he wants in return. But you can’t get very far by trading things directly with the people who need them.