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If you understand how to have a deep curiosity about everything — and I mean everything — you have an edge that cannot be beaten.

Working backwards from what you hope is true is a simple heuristic for finding what to do well.

We're all nerds who've spent the last 20 years of our lives just coding and making little things for the world, and the idea that you could teach AI how to go make things, and have everybody have an AI that can help them make things and feel the wonder of that, it's pretty sick.

All the biggest companies in the world are software companies in 2026. Even the ones that folks don't necessarily think of that way.

If you do things for the right reasons in business, money will come.

I love the idea in weightlifting of progressive overload — always a little bit harder, a little bit more. Go to failure, go to failure, go to failure. The beautiful thing about life is you don't know where that's going to take you.

Understanding the motivation of the other person is really, really important.

Life is about getting more context and seeing things in proportion to other things.

MySpace was focused on the number of accounts that signed up. Facebook focused on monthly active users — it was the dominant game. If you maximize the monthly active, you're going to beat someone who's maximizing accounts signed up. You're playing a better game. What most really successful founders and entrepreneurs do is, everyone else is playing this game, and they realize that if you play this higher level game, you win.

Inside the IBM PC, none of the chips were made by IBM. None of the disc drives were made by IBM. The power supply wasn't made by IBM. I was also interested in the economics of it. 'Well, what does this chip cost? What does that chip cost?' And you sort of add it all up, and then you compare it to the price that they're selling the thing for, and you go, 'Wow. They're really charging an incredible markup for this.'