In the late 1800s, the Brooklyn Bridge was built with no power tools, no heavy machinery, and only a basic, evolving understanding of how to make steel. It’s not these facts, but the stories surrounding the facts that inspire me when I take a good, long stare at a suspension bridge.
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Be careful who you copy. If you’re going to follow a role model, find one who you won’t compete with.
Don’t look to your peers for answers.
Find somebody in a different stage of life who you admire and respect.
- David Perell, Peter Thiel's Religion
The internet’s distinct architecture arose from a distinct constraint and a distinct freedom: First, its academically minded designers didn’t have or expect to raise massive amounts of capital to build the network; and second, they didn’t want or expect to make money from their invention.
- Jonathan Zittrain, The Internet Is Rotting
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