“And indeed, that IS the question: whether to float with the tide, or to swim for a goal. It is a choice we must all make consciously or unconsciously at one time in our lives.”

Statistical look at breakout startup companies

“The researchers found that the capacities neatly clustered into two distinct categories — experience and agency, or what we might call sensitivity and competence…the current conception of people as intuitive Cartesian dualists … is wrong. Instead…we see the body together with some of the mind — the part that feels things — as one type of stuff, and the remainder of the mind — abstract cognition — as another.”

This is one of the reasons I left Sweden: I don’t really like the personality I have/feel when I speak Swedish.

“For the best magic tricks — there’s a real collision between those two things — where what you see is impossible, you know it’s impossible, but it’s so beautiful you want to believe it’s true. And great magic, great storytelling, has that battle between your head and your heart, but you want your heart to win.”

‘…one of my mentors told me that of all the people he knew who said, “I’ll work for Wall Street for 10 years, then retire and do my thing,” none of them ever did.’