Humans are so bizarrely specific, dogs must think. They encourage us to eat this dogfood, and freak out when we eat poop or dead animals. It's so muc… - Paul Graham

Once you cross the threshold of profitability, however low, your runway becomes infinite.

To launch a taboo, a group has to be poised halfway between weakness and power. A confident group doesn’t need taboos to protect it. It’s not considered improper to make disparaging remarks about Americans, or the English. And yet a group has to be powerful enough to enforce a taboo.

Science is wonderfully promiscuous in including anything there's evidence for. That makes it really hard to create a body of knowledge that's distinct from science. If anything in your new body of knowledge is true, science just steals it.