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Hard Startups

It’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.

Sam Altman

A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be valuable if it works (not all hard problems are worth solving!)visit →

Advice for 10-20 year olds

Try to get some sense of kinds of things you enjoy doing.

Patrick Collison

If you're 10–20: these are prime years, go deep on things, become an expert. In particular, try to go deep on multiple things. One of the main things you should try to achieve by age 20 is some sense for which kinds of things you enjoy doing.visit →

Happiness Is Peace in Motion

Peace is happiness at rest.

Naval

In some ways, modern life is more hectic than prehistoric times. Our sources of stress are more chronic. Let’s define stress. In physical terms, stress happens when something wants to be in two places at one time. If I apply pressure to both ends of an iron beam, I create stress on the beam because one part wants to be north and the other part wants to be south.visit →