University curriculums are somewhat misleading here. Students want classes on "entrepreneurship," so universities offer them. But you'd be much better off taking a class in operating systems or cryptography instead. Or almost any other subject you were genuinely interested in.
Which technology should you focus on? Whichever you find most exciting. Don't second-guess your choice based on the supposed suitability of some other technology for startups.
If you're a student interested in both technology and startups and wondering how to combine them, the answer is: serially. Focus entirely on technology at first. Then once you're an expert in some technology (which will take several years), you can start to think about startups.
The political principles I care most about are the boring, low-level ones that are not specifically left or right, like freedom of speech, voting rights, civil liberties, due process, and so on. It's worrying that these seem more threatened lately.
If you're willing to change your opinions when you get new information, you can't be "owned" in the sense of being defeated. You just change your opinion.
Listen and be open, but don’t let anybody tell you who you are. This was just one of the many stories telling us all the ways we were going to fail. Today, Amazon is one of the world’s most successful companies and has revolutionized two entirely different industries.
As a result, each developmental stage tends to develop its own unique form of orthodoxy, or stage absolutism, that keeps people stuck at a certain level. [Conscious Capitalism]
Our self-esteem is easily threatened by the possibility that our current personal level if development isn’t really the highest pinnacle of human development.
“It’s actually a radical redesign of the core technology of building a car. And some of this, when I do Battery Day later in September, I’ll be talking about what we are going to be doing here in Berlin.”
- @elonmusk
$TSLA
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