If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.
You don’t stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things.
You have this quotation on your book cover from Williams James, “Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.” Why’d you choose that?
Distraction today is this [points to my iPhone, which is recording our conversation]. I believe that these things are killing our discipline, killing our ability for solitude, and killing our ability to be bored. Children need to learn how to be bored. They don’t need to be entertained all the time.
