Venture and value investors outperform via patience. Active trading is just another get-rich-quick scheme, with the same results. - Naval Ravikant

The great ones don’t do it for money or fame or power.

Or to build an institution, or to help others, or to save the world.

Like a child tinkering, they create it for its own sake.

Free of the burden of ambition.

Deaf to the demands of the world.

The fundamental insecurity - most ppl need faith in something - religion, gov't, academia. Few are comfortable with decentralized systems.

Someone who is using a lot of fancy words and big concepts probably doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The smartest people can explain things to a child; if you can’t do that, you don’t understand the concept.