Our minds do not think inside of pages, files or apps. We think in concepts, we dart around fluidly at whatever level of detail suits the moment, connecting the dots, sparking aha moments. Information technology could be augmenting our collective human intellect at the speed of thought in powerful new ways, instead of automating how we used to think and work in a linear paper-based world.

This is certainly true in Silicon Valley, where it’s common to meet accomplished technical makers who, after reading a few stories from Richard Hamming and Richard Feynman, think they understand research well enough that they can “create the new Bell Labs”. Usually they’re victims of Dunning-Krugeritis, so ignorant they’re not even aware of their ignorance.

Rather than a single centralized network modeled after the legacy telephone system, operated by a government or a few massive utilities, the internet was designed to allow any device anywhere to interoperate with any other device, allowing any provider able to bring whatever networking capacity it had to the growing party.

if the beachhead consists of people doing something lots more people will be doing in the future, then it's probably big enough no matter how small it is.

The component of entrepreneurship that really matters is domain expertise. The way to become Larry Page was to become an expert on search. And the way to become an expert on search was to be driven by genuine curiosity, not some ulterior motive.

If you don’t know you are doing, start with the simplest configuration, which is only setting workers to (2*CPU)+1 and don’t worry about threads.