The Anthology of Balaji Quotes

“Distinguishing social consensus from truth is really important because they’re not the same.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

“Progress is abstraction.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

“You have 168 hours per week, ~112 awake. Substitute capital for time, technology for both. Avoid travel. Cancel meetings. Focus on doing.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

“You cannot automate something until you’ve done it manually many times. Control all of the factors and show technology cuts costs. Remember, for many legacy companies, information technology is only a cost center. They only adopted the code. You were born in it, molded by it. A full-stack entrant into a new vertical is formidably protean. You can morph your product just by hitting keys. Tesla’s over-the-air updates for its cars are a fantastic example.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future

“We need to evangelize technological progress with every word and action. To recognize that the purpose of technology is to transcend our limits and to motivate everything we do with this sense of purpose. To take the winnings from our web apps and put them toward Mars. To feel no hesitation to start small and no shame in dreaming big. To tell the world it is possible to cure the deaf, restore sight, and end death itself.”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Anthology of Balaji: A Guide to Technology, Truth, and Building the Future