Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can p… - Paul Graham

Unexpected advantage of appointing board members who already have significant achievements: being on your board is not the main source of their importance, so they won't tend to cling to their seats even when it's obviously time to leave.

Figuring out what a startup should say to investors is strangely useful for figuring out what it should actually do. Most people treat these questions as separate, but ideally they converge. If you can cook up a plausible plan to become huge, you should go ahead and do it.

I've never met a more consistently Darwinian group of people than nature guides. Supposedly rapacious business types are pollyannas by comparison.