Palmer Luckey

Being outside of the box, I meet outside-of-the-box people

quite frequently.

Very rarely do I meet ones who are outside of the box thinkers who want to engage with very conventional systems like the US Department of Defense or electronics retailers.

There's a lot of outside of the box people who they almost divorce themselves from the timeline of the boring corporations and the large government agencies.

Where I've done well is being willing to

interface with those things and live my life on the terms of inside-the-box thinkers as an out-of-the-box person.

Probably practicality.

It comes back to what I talked about earlier.

I want to make a big impact on the world.

There's not that many people who have made an impact divorcing themselves from the establishment and just doing their own thing.

And almost all the ones you can come up with are artists.

And I am, unfortunately, no artist.

I could do a lot of interesting things.

I know a lot of people in the maker community that are like this, the hacker community.

And they go off and they follow their little passion or their interests.

They're building cool, wacky things.

They're pursuing some novel technique for making a new programming language.

But they're kind of a purity test.

that dictates who they're willing to work with and how they're willing to slow themselves down, I think actually limits their ability to impact the world.

You can have a lot more impact as a person who says, I have out-of-the-box ideas and I am going to force myself to engage in the unpleasant task of trying to push these ideas onto conventional people and conventional institutions than if you say, I'm just gonna go and I'm gonna