Nothing has worked in fixing birth rates. Financial incentives didn’t work (Hungary), Nordic socialism didn’t work (Scandinavia), restricting women’s rights didn’t work (Iran), totalitarianism didn’t work (North Korea), doing nothing didn’t work (Latin America).
What will work?
There should be something like a Wikipedia for careers:
Lists of career paths, how & what skills you'll need to break-in & rise up, how much $ you’d earn over time, lifestyle/happiness pros&cons, recommended paths based on interests & skills & personality type, case studies etc
A Facebook employee who blocks FB for their kid.
An Ivy League professor who has their kid homeschooled / not attend university.
A VC who tells their friends to bootstrap and not take VC funding.
What's the best term for this type of phenomenon?
Underrated skill: taking young people seriously.
Treating them w/ similar respect others will give them in a few years--or not immediately discounting them because of their age.
Later on, they’ll remember who treated them well & who saw something in them before others did.
What’s the most credible theory for why there’s been a global shift to the right?
Rejection of post-History globalism, open borders, Davos man? Falling birth rates?
I’m excited to share that:
1. I’m joining Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner.
2. a16z has acquired Turpentine.
Everything I’ve worked on over my career has been around investing and building products/networks/media for founders — a16z is the perfect place for me
Some of my favorite Naval Ravikant takeaways & quotes from his interviews 👇
"Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at somebody else"
"Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want"
