Happiness

I had a number of people ask me what I’m doing next. So I told them.

One of the key pillars of what I am doing now is content. It’s why I write this blog. It’s why I produce Superclusters. It’s why there are a few new projects I’m working on that will shed light to this opaque world in which we’re in. Particularly in venture. In the allocator world.

I don’t hold anything back. There are no other cards I’m hiding up my sleeve. When a friend, an acquaintance, a stranger ask me how I do something, I tell them. Unfiltered. Without restraint. Without reservation. Without hesitation.

And for some reason, recently I’ve had more people ask me why. “What’s in it for you?” “What’s your master plan?” “Do you make more money this way?” “Why not just do X?” “You know you can get people to pay you a lot of money for this.” “Aren’t you afraid of being obsolete?”

Some questions come from a place of fear. Others, a place of greed. None of it from a place of joy.

There’s nothing in it for me, except for one thing. If I can help one more person not fall through the pitfalls I went through, or help one more person live a more meaningful life, or help one more person smile, I’d do it in a heartbeat.

There’s a great line I remember watching in the show After Life. “Happiness is amazing. It’s so amazing it doesn’t matter if it’s yours or not. A society grows great when old men plant trees the shade of which they know they will never sit in.”

I just want a better world. I want to make people happy. And I don’t care if it’s my own. But making another person truly happy makes me happy.

Whether you believe me or not, that’s up to you. But that’s all I have to say.

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