A bunch of Chamath Palihapititya interviews. There are other people who I'm sure I would take inspiration from if I knew everyone, but it's easy for now to jus

A bunch of Chamath Palihapititya interviews. There are other people who I'm sure I would take inspiration from if I knew everyone, but it's easy for now to just point at someone with a lot of money who I feel is very focused on real value creation in philosophy and wants more investment opportunities that fit that philosophy. I pretty well believed that the world would become meritocratic. At 25, things looked very non-meritocratic. Check boxes, hang your hat on superficial measures of success, stop thinking because you'll be wrong because you never took enough risks to learn to get anything difficult right. I feel like there's this built-in notion among people who get their first taste of greed and fall victim to success bias where they start thinking that the highest aspiration in life is to build Comcast, be the cybernetic CEO for 400 years, outlive all the rest of the shareholders, and by virtue of becoming the entrenched player with all the cards stacked in their favor, have all the money on Earth at some point. If we can just hold onto our rent-seeking empire... Meanwhile nothing interesting happens whatsoever. As a simultaneous complete rejection of this nightmarish aspiration and an attempt to live as close as possible to the centers of real value creation, I find it very easy to stay devoted to a technology career with some entrepreneur splashed in. If your highest aspiration is to own something and sit back comfortably as a good citizen, you should first fight for a strong social safety net, perhaps even guaranteed income, and then give away all your excess to people who will do things with it that add real entertainment to your life by building cool things that weren't possible with people like you clogging up the pipes. I find entrepreneurship to be the one career where I can wake up, be at one with dissatisfaction or ambition because I feel very close to direct pathways of action instead of acceptance or just ranting on social media somewhere. Even ranting becomes an exercise in synthesizing knowledge together into a vision of a better solution. You can't lose.