All this goes in cycles. Digital was rare, valuable, non-obvious, and difficult for a long time. Now we’ve won so hard that the physical complements are becoming more valuable. We have plenty of once-scarce jelly, and now it’s time to make peanut butter again. But to answer the question directly: algorithms create value (try running the modern world without quicksort or pagerank). Think about billion-person networks, social media, cryptocurrency itself…in many ways we live in an Internet First world, particularly in the English-speaking world. And digital progress will continue, as it should. But now it’s time to print out the Internet, to materialize all these cool things from the cloud upon the land, and also to rebuild genuine in-person communities in the process. Like new cities, built not around the car but the self-driving, electric car.

I don't know anyone who quit their job to live of savings and built something that made money before their savings run out except @AndreyAzimov I always think it's the wrong way to do it I think you should build something on the side and once it makes equal or more money than your main job or freelance gigs and it's stable, quit the job and switch Being unemployed somehow makes people lazy and feel too relaxed to build something, like your day is fully free of commitments which sounds ideal but freedom isn't when stuff is built I think, you need constraints I had income from my YouTube channel Panda Mix Show in 2013 when I started, and it took over a year before I made enough money to switch Obviously I wish him well but I think better do the switch than hard quit