The strange history of the Baby Boom produced a generation of indefinite optimists so used to effortless progress that they feel entitled to it. - Peter Thiel

If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll give up on trying to master it.

The hazards of imitative competition may partially explain why individuals with an Asperger’s-like social ineptitude seem to be at an advantage in Silicon Valley today. If you’re less sensitive to social cues, you’re less likely to do the same things as everyone else around you. If you’re interested in making things or programming computers, you’ll be less afraid to pursue those activities single-mindedly and thereby become incredibly good at them.

La lección para los emprendedores es clara: si quieres crear y capturar valor perdurable, no crees un negocio indiferenciado de productos básicos.