Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head. - Peter Thiel

The convergence of desire is even more obvious at the top: all oligarchs have the same taste in Cristal, from Petersburg to Pyongyang.

If you do start your own company, you must remember the power law to operate it well. The most important things are singular: One market will probably be better than all others, as we discussed in Chapter 5. One distribution strategy usually dominates all others, too — for that see Chapter 11. Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others — see Chapter 9. However, you can’t trust a world that denies the power law to accurately frame your decisions for you, so what’s most important is rarely obvious. It might even be secret. But in a power law world, you can’t afford not to think hard about where your actions will fall on the curve.

Students who don’t learn best by sitting still at a desk are made to feel somehow inferior,