In ratio to the duration and increasing strength of authority its advantages for its subjects disappear and its disadvantages increase.

Moments of spiritual transcendence came to me as mesmerizing beauty.

With age and experience, however, you learn two things: first, that the world is full of great opportunities, more than you can ever take advantage of, and, second, that real opportunities don’t disappear.

Moravec’s paradox: machines and humans frequently have opposite strengths and weaknesses.

The ability to do what you want, when you want, for as long as you want, has an infinite ROI.

Membership is about connection and access over privacy and ownership—and not everyone values these the same way.

I believe that helping others is the most significant contribution anyone can make in life. I’m grateful that we’ve developed to the point where we’re able to do it.

A good guardrailing relationship should be firm without being overly rigid. Ideally, it should work like two people dancing—they’re literally pushing against each other, but with a lot of mutual give-and-take.

At this point Jesus reveals to his disciples the possibility of a demonic faith which produces wonderful works quite indistinguishable from the works of the true disciples, works of charity, miracles, perhaps even of personal sanctification, but which is nevertheless a denial of Jesus and of the life of discipleship.

The ability to grow in the long term by using the paid engine requires a differentiated ability to monetize a certain set of customers.