Bill Gurley

Jonathan Haidt calls it the resume arms race, where starting in sixth grade, we're so worried about the child getting into a good school that we start overpacking their schedule with lacrosse lessons and Mandarin lessons and volunteering at the SBCA.

Like, we're just—the kids today—

Their schedules are so booked relative to when I grew up and there's not a lot of free time.

And by the time they get to the end of their senior year in college, they're so tired.

They're just tired of grinding that they want to just like take a year off or they just want to relax or they're like really burnt out.

And so...

This is part of why – part of the reason why I tilt towards this fascination thing is it just doesn't feel like a grind.

Like if you can get someone in a lane doing something that they really get emotional, you hear this word flow.

Like if that's part of what they're doing –

then I think they got a better chance of feeling fulfilled and not having anxiety.

Like, don't... There's a... Dave Evans has these stats that, like...

Five years after college, 40% of people are no longer in their major.

And like 10 years after, it's a much higher number.

And so I worry that we put these children through so much of a grind.

They have almost a sunk cost fallacy that they have to deliver in that lane.

And it's just not true.

So I think being open-minded to the notion that you can move around and explore is useful.

There's a...

A really cool idea I stole from one of the acquired podcasts, there's where he created a side hustle at every job he went to, which is a pretty unique idea.

But when he would land, he would say, if I'm willing to work extra, will you let me do this other thing also?