There are only two things you have to know about business: build something users love, and make more than you spend. - Paul Graham

Cancel culture had one upside: There are several people I followed after they got cancelled, to show support for them, and these have turned out to be some of the most interesting people I follow. Not surprisingly, since thinking for themselves was what got them cancelled.

The three ingredients in clickbait revenue: a damning headline, a paywall, and a large number of people whose existing beliefs would be confirmed if the headline were accurate.

If you try to solve a hard problem, the question is not whether you will use a powerful enough language, but whether you will (a) use a powerful language, (b) write a de facto interpreter for one, or (c) yourself become a human compiler for one.