I'm glad there's OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet. - Marc Andreessen

The two premodern religions were ancestor worship and nature worship (see "The Ancient City" by Fustel de Coulanges). The two postmodern religions are evidently identitarianism and environmentalism. Is this a coincidence, or something deeper?

It's shocking to me how few people actually give entrepreneurship a shot. The fate of the world over the next 1,500 years is riding on the people who actually want to give it a shot.

The process of planning is very valuable, for forcing you to think hard about what you are doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless