#business #philosophy #wealth #knowledge # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Entrepreneurship #to-digest >Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. >~ [[Paul Graham]] **Entrepreneurship** = [[Philosophy/Humans/Transhumanism/Transhumanism|health]] * [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] * [[Rationality|rationality]] >Find an activity that feels like work to others but feels like play to you. ~ [[Naval Ravikant]] ## Being more efficient In a traditional company, you don't push yourself to 100% because you get rewarded the average of the company >Remember what a startup is, economically: a way of saying, I want to work faster. Instead of accumulating money slowly by being paid a regular wage for fifty years, I want to get it over with as soon as possible. >~ [[Paul Graham]] ## [[Knowledge]] To build the future you need to know a lot of things, more than anyone else, so you learn a lot. Entrepreneurship is such a learning ecosystem, you get [[Adding shocks|shocks]] from everywhere and if you're [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Antifragility|antifragile]], get plenty of upsides from it ### [[Via Negativa|via negativa]] >there can be nothing more dreadful than that the actions of a man should be subject to the will of another >~ [[Kant]] If you work for someone, i.e. your rent your [[Mind]] to someone, that intellect is dis-aligned with yours, i.e. someone that you do not respect, you will die intellectually, that is, you will die. ## [[Wealth]] >Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry makes all things easy; and He that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him. >~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] >Sloth, like Rust, consumes faster than Labour wears, while the used Key is always bright, >~ [[Benjamin Franklin]] ## [[Purpose]] >The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to **empower people** rather than try to make them obsolete. >~ [[Peter Phiel]] >Finally, when young people who “want to help mankind” come to me asking, “What should I do? I want to reduce poverty, save the world,” and similar noble aspirations at the macro-level, my suggestion is: >1) Never engage in virtue signaling; >2) Never engage in rent-seeking; >3) You must start a business. Put yourself on the line, **start a business**. Yes, take risk, and if you get rich (which is optional), spend your money generously on others. > >~ [[Nassim Taleb]] >Work as if you were to live 100 years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow. >~[[Benjamin Franklin]] ![[DALL·E 2022-07-01 15.55.35 - A super man illuminated by the shining sun, behind him, a rocket racing towards the moon, digital art.png]] >Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth of the planet and pulling others out of poverty. You are the source of our [[Philosophy/Rationality/Models/Antifragility|antifragility]]. Our nation thanks you ~ [[Nassim Taleb]] ![[DALL·E 2022-07-01 15.56.20 - A super man illuminated by the shining sun, behind him, a rocket racing towards the moon, digital art.png]] >And thus the Puritan migration established the foundation for some characteristics of [[Benjamin Franklin]], and of America itself a be lief that spiritual salvation and secular success need not be at odds that industriousness is next to godliness, and that free thought and free enterprise are integrally related. >~ [[Walter Isaacson]] ## Entrepreneurship [[Brain nutrition|brain food]] ![[Entrepreneurship brain food]] ## Have [[Epistemic humility]] >The great **entrepreneurs** have found they need to find complements. If you look at yourself and reflect on your skills and your talents and your unique abilities, you’ll find that everybody has their gaps. >~ [[Tren Griffin]] Know your weaknesses, [[Never fool yourself]] ## Producing over consuming ![[Producing over consuming]]