Eric Jorgenson

From a tech Silicon Valley point of view, it's like, of course you use your own product.

It'd be insane not to.

How could you purport to really be a fan and believe in your product if you don't use it?

I mean, it is, I have a black and white line in my life between when the Almanac of Naval was published.

You know, I was about 30 years old and I've been working in Silicon Valley for a long time.

I worked at a company that was like high flying, but didn't end up, you know, becoming a household name or a successful exit.

But I've been like tweeting and blogging along the way.

And yeah,

When Elon Musk hires somebody, he says he looks for evidence of exceptional ability.

And I think in retrospect that the Almanac of All Being published was my first broad scale evidence of exceptional ability in my life.

It's the thing that people now know me for.

It is the thing that sort of became...

It changed who I got introduced to.

It changed what I got invited to.

It changed how people saw me.

It preceded me in a bunch of important ways.

And it helped me.

I tell people writing a book is like building a lighthouse to gather your people.

And so the people that are attracted to that book and the ideas that I chose to put in it

are almost inevitably my people.