This is seriously worrying.

Marc Andreessen said last week that he aims for "zero" introspection. He called it a manufacture of the 1910s and said great men of history never sat around examining themselves, which is a remarkable thing to claim given that Socrates made the examined life a condition of the life worth living, Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations while running the Roman Empire, and Einstein credited long periods of solitary reflection as the foundation of his most important breakthroughs.

What concerns me is the combination. One of the most influential venture capitalists in the world, backing the companies building the most powerful technology in human history, is proudly saying that self-reflection is a waste of time. The people shaping how AI gets built and deployed are the same people dismissing the one practice that might cause them to pause and ask whether they should.

Self-understanding is the foundation of everything we're building at Rumbo. The idea that you can make good decisions about your career, your life, or the future of an entire industry without first understanding yourself is exactly the kind of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place.