Michelangelo D'Agostino

You can just build things.

on my trip back from sf, i overheard a group of people who had just come from the yc ai startup school in the airport. i decided to listen in on their conversation. none of it was about building things that would bring people joy or about creating something meaningful. it was all about how much money they could make, the pursuit of wealth above everything else. money is fine. useful, even. but when it becomes the only goal, it disconnects you from purpose. it hollows out the work. and worse, even when you get it, it rarely gives what you thought it would. and if you don’t, the failure cuts deeper than it should. there was a time people made things because they loved the process. because it mattered to them. because they thought someone else might love it too. that time feels far away now. everything’s clout and capital.