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It is hard to have someone living in the house with you all the time, and even if you spend a long time selecting the right person, you might find out they are really not a great match in the long run.

Existentialism is a notion that we are free to make our own choices. This freedom can be scary, and to protect ourselves we pretend to not have a choice.

A lot of people end up unhappy because they have not sat down and faced their own view of the world and carefully examined whether what they are doing is getting them to what they truly want. Which of course requires an understanding of what you actually want in life.

Taking the time to answer these questions is scary.

Recently Justin did an experiment where he tried to replace his phone with an Apple Watch. That did not work as he still wanted utility apps, like ride sharing or parking, or to read a book on a Kindle. To compromise, he's deleted all the distraction/entertainment apps, turned his phone to black and white, and then locked it so that he would not be able to install more apps. So far it seems to be helping with the phone addiction.

It was important for Sahil to understand why he had a goal of building a billion dollar company to begin with, what lead to his failure, and how he's been able to redefine success in order to work on a meaningful company instead.

When Sahil was ready to write, he was not sure what exactly to cover in this essay, so he reached out to friends and asked them for questions. People wanted to know about every little part, from raising money to failing. Starting by answering each individual question, he'd composed a long list of segments, and eventually restructured them into a long-form article.

The title of "Reflecting on my failure to build a billion dollar company" was a deliberate to choice to create something that could be shared without a stance on the subject. Sahil wanted to tell an entertaining story, without necessarily teaching anything.

Her older brother was fascinated by zoology, which inspired her. Later, he was diagnosed with cancer and passed away. Seeing her brother's experience with cancer and the treatments, it changed her focus of zoology. Sheena became curious to know why her brother’s body could not overcome the disease, and found her interest shift to immunology.

Bryce grew up in Portland, Oregon and loved it there. However, after doing one year at a college in Idaho and dropping out, he took a few years off to go on a Mission, and upon returning to Utah afterwards, he decided to stay.

VCs are really rather thin-skinned when someone questions their model. Bryce says that 80% of his LPs left when they changed from a typical VC fund to a new, Indie.vc model. For the longest time he's felt like an outside, lost friends and got disinvited from events, all because he was convinced that not every company should be chasing venture dollars, at least not before they were ready.

Air pollution kills seven million people globally every year. It is not just causing asthma attacks, but, also heart attacks, strokes, and premature birth.

The most important thing in business is to not go out of business. The next couple of months are going to be unpredictable. Companies need to reduce their burn rate and prepare to see lower revenues. Raise more money if you still can. A downturn in a market is a great time to work on your company and get everything ready for when the market bounces back up!

Om says that Facebook executives do not understand their role in the society. They prioritize engagement above all while making decisions, which may increase Facebook revenue, but does not make the world any better.

At some point, Luis found out that Yahoo had a problem with spammers who were abusing their systems and Yahoo had no way to stop them. Luis and his advisor invented Captcha to stop these spammers.