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Burn After Reading: The Case for Disposable Ideas and Temporary Truths

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Think of the last time you wrote something you were absolutely certain about. A political rant. A breakup letter you never sent. A brilliant startup idea. Now look at it six months later. Is it still brilliant? Or is it just… evidence ? Burn After Reading

We live in an age of permanence.

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But in our obsession with saving everything, we’ve forgotten the sacred art of destruction. Burn After Reading: The Case for Disposable Ideas

We mistake documentation for wisdom. We think that if we write it down, we must protect it, defend it, and build a shrine around it. But most of our ideas aren’t monuments. They are . A brilliant startup idea