Friend: "Listening to Hamilton makes me incredibly insecure about my ambition."
Me: "How so?"
Friend: "By the time he was 33 Hamilton had fought and won a war, and was busy writing the Federalist Papers. What have we done?"
Me: "Uhhhh"
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When I realized what Max Levchin had done by a younger age than me, I stopped benchmarking my accomplishments to my age. No point.
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Hamilton was *born* with incredible ambition. His impact lagged his ambition for a while, but caught up.
We're 100x better now at growing ambition. Impact will follow. This chart doesn't quite get it right, but close:
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I welcome anyone copying/modifying/improving on this chart. I used the amazing to make it.
Here's a copy of the image. Have at it: excalidraw.com/#json=50878788
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