Someone graduating from college thinks, and is told, that he needs to get a job, as if the important thing were becoming a member of an institution. … - Paul Graham

you need to start doing something people want. You don’t need to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It’s doing something people want that matters, not joining the group.6

Startups are not magic. They don’t change the laws of wealth creation. They just represent a point at the far end of the curve.

One difficulty when trying to ban ideas on social networks is that it's the edge cases that matter most, but bans are enforced by low-level employees who don't understand them.

Language policing is so creepy. You can tell the people who do it aren't real writers, or they could never produce the horrible rules they come up with. It's like priests telling people how to have sex.