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#126 Hearts on Fire - David Perell on curiosity, being a citizen of the internet, taking himself seriously, childhood obsessions, building Write of Passage, ambition, and money

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

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Charge for Things Is Inevitable

When you start charging for things it feels bad one of the reasons is our society is sort of this big corporation that says like the right way to orient in the world is to like have a job. People who tend to be more engineeringy more spend more time on the internet they also tends to be correlated with really bad aesthetics. I think that aesthetics basically hacks the part of your brain that says this is a scam because people know that good aesthetics take time and aesthetic transcends reason. One of the reasons why I spend so much time thinking about aesthetics is because we can change the the scam part of the internet that's also I write a passage cost many thousands of dollars and is one of the

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