Venkatesh Rao@vgr1/ So slightly more structured follow-on to this unstructured riff on ambitionQuote TweetVenkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 2, 2017I'm getting curious about psychology of shrinking horizons with age. 20% is learning limits, 20% adulting constraints, but 60% = mystery...4:57 PM · Aug 2, 20172 Retweets2 Quote Tweets11 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 2, 2017Replying to @vgr2/ A good unit for ambition is "baby equivalents." We already talk figuratively of projects as "babies", so why not formalize intuition123
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Aug 2, 2017Replying to @vgr3/ It is traditional in the US today to measure babies in terms of how much they cost ($1 million for middle class baby through college)13