The exponential tech pattern: First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they regulate you. Then you're infrastructure. AI is hitting the "i… - Peter Diamandis

Passion and purpose scale — always have, always will. Every movement, every revolution, is proof of this fact. Plus, doing anything big and bold is difficult, and at two in the morning for the fifth night in a row, when you need to keep going, you’re only going to fuel yourself from deep within. You’re not going to push ahead when it’s someone else’s mission. It needs to be yours.

less than five years after Burt Rutan spent $26 million beating the aerospace giants at their own game, DIY Drones took them down with volunteer labor, a few toys, and a couple hundred dollars' worth of spare parts. "It's radical demonetization," says Anderson, "a true DIY story about using open-source design to reduce costs a hundredfold while keeping ninety percent functionality.

I measure success by one metric: Can we positively impact 1B+ people? Everything else is noise... Prizes, funds, communities, books—they're all just containers for scale.