Long Read: Billionaires Build

Paul Graham | 17 minutes

There are certainly some people who become rich by doing bad things. But there are also plenty of people who behave badly and don't make that much from it. There is no correlation — in fact, probably an inverse correlation — between how badly you behave and how much money you make.

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Snippets

As a society, it’s as if we’ve read too many blog posts about the 80/20 rule.
When you strip away too much of the non-essential, you lose the kind of craftsmanship that endows an object with soul and makes the world feel alive.

- David Perell, The Microwave Economy

These past few months I’ve tried to get better at looking closely, and the result has been a richer, more intimate relationship with my home, my work, my town, the mountains in my back yard, the people and art and media in my life.

- Craig Mod, Looking Closely is Everything