The people most likely to grasp that wealth can be created are the ones who are good at making things, the craftsmen. Their hand-made objects become … - Paul Graham

The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs.

If you look at history, it seems that most people who got rich by creating wealth did it by developing new technology. You just can’t fry eggs or cut hair fast enough.

Something that's obvious in retrospect but I only noticed after years as a primary school parent: kids who are bullies or assholes tend to have parents who are too, and this often makes it hard for the administrators to keep a lid on bad behavior.