Long term, every person will work for themselves. You become/are your personal brand. Industiral revolution allowed humans to team up in mechanistic, hierarhical ways to create production. But information revolution is breaking down communication barriers - optimal size of the firm is shrinking from thousands, to hundreds, to dozens, maybe even less. Future is heading towards individual brands.

Creating yourself - this is more actionable than finding yourself.

Going back to books. When you are talking about solving old problems, the older the problem, the older the solution. How to stay healthy, calm, how to be happy, how to raise a family… The older solutions are usually better! They stand the test of time. Any book that survived 2000 years old, has something valuable in it

Suffering - seeing reality as it is

Offline is undercrowded