Marc Andreessen

"So I love caffeine. For a very long time I always said that the ultimate day like the perfect day was 12 hours of caffeine followed by four hours of alcohol."

"The book that I always recommend on this topic is called The Machiavellians, a famous book from the 1940s by this guy James Burnham who's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century."

"The TV show that does a great job of this is Halt and Catch Fire. In the first season it gives you a sense of IBM showing up with 20 people in blue suits to completely crush you."

"Kevin Maney wrote a book, a biography of Thomas Watson Senior, which is one of those. He went back and got the archives of the transcripts of the executive staff meetings."

"I did it in ChatGPT"

"Obviously TikTok and Instagram have much more reach, they reach the mass global audience more."

"If you want to learn a lot of stuff, you can go on Substack and long form YouTube podcast and you can live in that world and raise your IQ point today."

"I posted a link to a book called The True Believer that talks about this."

"I posted a link to another book on this topic that has a great title called Kill All Normies."

"Not eating an entire box of Oreos and drinking an entire bottle of scotch every night, both of which I'm also trying not to do."

"Silicon Graphics at the time was selling their computers basically starting at list price like $50,000 for a desktop workstation and then scaled up into the millions."

"Silicon Graphics actually built the original 3D graphics chip for a consumer game player, the Nintendo 64."

"The internet as we know it today in the 1980s was called the NSFnet. NSF stands for National Science Foundation which is a branch of the US government that funds research."

"AOL connected all the AOL users which were just normal people to the internet in September 1993. That's the day the internet changed."

"The old messaging system was called Usenet and the discussions on Usenet were just absolutely spectacular. It was like the most pure clean intellectual vibrant space since Athens in 500 BC."

"There's this great website called Pessimist Archive where these guys go back and they find all these newspaper articles that are contemporaneous to these things."

"I have tons of horror stories from people I know that came out the other side... They tend to like quit their companies. They moved to Indonesia to become a surf instructor."