Marc Andreessen

Everybody else thinks they're the only one that's like faking the smiles at the party.

Everybody else thinks they're the only one that's like faking the smiles at the party.

And so I think it's like incredibly important to be able to have an internal psychological mechanism to be able to deal with that and not have that overwhelm you.

And so I think it's like incredibly important to be able to have an internal psychological mechanism to be able to deal with that and not have that overwhelm you.

And I, at least this week, my nomination is retard maxing.

And I, at least this week, my nomination is retard maxing.

Yeah, I mean, look, I've been through kind of every version of this myself.

Yeah, I mean, look, I've been through kind of every version of this myself.

There's a famous F. Scott Fitzgerald line where he said in the 1920s, where he said, you know, author of The Great Gatsby, and he said, there are no second acts in American lives.

There's a famous F. Scott Fitzgerald line where he said in the 1920s, where he said, you know, author of The Great Gatsby, and he said, there are no second acts in American lives.

You get one shot and that's it.

You get one shot and that's it.

And fortunately, I think like he was very, very, very deeply wrong about that.

And fortunately, I think like he was very, very, very deeply wrong about that.

And I think he was definitely wrong about that for American lives.

And I think he was definitely wrong about that for American lives.

And I think he was generally wrong about that for lives, at least elsewhere in the West.

And I think he was generally wrong about that for lives, at least elsewhere in the West.

Maybe a little bit less so in Europe, but I think still, you know, more than not.

Maybe a little bit less so in Europe, but I think still, you know, more than not.