- Obviously, there isn’t a finite number of jobs, or finite amount of wealth. Otherwise we would still be sitting around in caves, figuring out how to divide up pieces of fire wood, and the occasional dead deer
- 200 years ago nobody had antibiotics. Nobody had cars. Nobody had electricity. Nobody had the iPhone. All of these things are inventions that have made us wealthier as a species.
- The engine of technology is science that is applied for the purpose of creating abundance
- This thought experiment I want you to think through is imagine if everybody had the knowledge of a good software engineer and a good hardware engineer
- You have to be a little eccentric to be out on the frontier by yourself
- Give Society What It Doesn’t Know How to Get
- The fundamental property of the internet more than any other single thing is it connects every human to each other human on the planet
- 7 billion human beings on the planet
- Essentially, to create things, you have to be a rational optimist
- You’ve got one life on this planet. Why not try to build something big?
- It is important that you read foundational things
- It’s better to read a great book slowly than to fly through a hundred books quickly
- It’s the number of iterations that drives the learning curve
- Languages are probably the oldest example of network effect
- Experience can be accelerated through short iterations
- All we have to do is figure out how to reconfigure the existing atoms and particles out there to do what we want
- We evolved for scarcity but live in abundance
- Anything that are not forbidden by the laws of physics are possible
- All failures are just lack of knowledge