A great day

Underrated life advice: Do what most people avoid. Wake up early. Focus deeply. Move daily. Be present. Have difficult conversations. Do what you say you’re going to do. Recipe for a good life.

Ancient Rome was once the heart of civilization. All roads led to Rome. Their official language was Latin. It was the language of the honorables, the elites and the learned. When the empire collapsed, the Latin language died. However, it later made great comeback in some aspects of the language of neighborhoods like Italy, Spain, France etc
Today, only the Catholic Church, ancient learning institutions like Harvard, Oxford etc, and elite professions like medicine and law still speaks Latin.

One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they don't, in which case the market must not exist.

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