Einar Volsett

And that was one of the weirdest things about it.

I was like, huh, okay, that's interesting.

Is that dangerous?

Dangerous in what way?

No, I don't think it's dangerous.

I mean, I think it's just, it's funny how, to me, it speaks more to like,

people will do pretty much what everyone else around them does.

I mean, that's one of the key things.

And I think people think that their little piece of the world is much more important than it is most of the time, or at least more impactful.

I think if you look at...

And I think this is true in every industry.

In every sort of subculture, niche, and industry, there are famous people.

Everybody knows X, Y, Z. It doesn't matter which industry you're in.

Oh, there are a bunch of people.

I'm really bad with names, but there are some people who are like, you know, there's that Stanford professor.

There's a Stanford professor who gave up email and the only way to reach him is to send him a physical letter.

Or if someone sends an email, then his assistant prints it out once a quarter and then he responds via something like that.

And there are a number of sort of sages in the academic world.

And that's also true in startup land.

Like, look, everybody knows who Paul Graham is.