Live in the future, then build what's missing. - Paul Graham

Sufficiently good AI translation will decrease the need for people to speak English as a second language. But interestingly the decrease will vary depending on the type of work people do. In person conversations will need lingua francas for longer.

When startups fail the reason is almost always that they haven't made what people want.

"Many things people like, especially if they're young and ambitious, they like largely for the feeling of virtue in liking them. 99% of people reading Ulysses are thinking "I'm reading Ulysses" as they do it."