Both living and traveling somewhere “consume” your feelings of infinity. After you have known a place, it’s impossible for that place to generate the feeling again. No longer does Europe, where I lived for a year and a half, feel overwhelming. Gorgeous, interesting, yes, but not infinitely so.
To a person who has traveled in most of the world, there is no longer anywhere to get the full-blown, initial feeling of infinity. At most, there is outer space — and maybe that’s why some ultrarich people fancy taking flights into the orbit of the Earth. But space won’t save us either.
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Working on a project of your own is as different from ordinary work as skating is from walking.
It's more fun, but also much more productive.
- Paul Graham, A Project of One's Own
Starcraft players are already better at than a lot of people who end up getting MBAs.
- Tobi Lutke, The Observer Effect: Sriram Krishnan interviews Tobi Lutke