Started Thanksgiving Day by reading a few chapters of Johann Kurtz’ new book as the kids watched the parade.
I can’t help but think of the lack of strong families in the tech billionaire class. It seems like a bunch of individualists with no drive to have family legacies.
The world is run by people that don’t have a real stake in the future. You don’t have to know it. People can feel it.
Happy thanksgiving to you and yours
Family is the greatest legacy we can leave behind. We come with nothing and leave with nothing except the lives we can help make a small impact in. Here’s to family and a bright future, happy Thanksgiving to the Bent family!
Always looking for new reads. Is this book very religious (not my style) ??otherwise looks interesting
Legacy is an illusion. Your genes are dissipated in a few generations. Even if elon had 100 kids in 10 generations, the expected genetic input from any single ancestor is about 0.1%. He would have to create a breeding program that would last through generations like aristocracy has done in the past. Your cultural input is also a product of the times you lived in. If einstein had died as a boy there were many others ready to “discover” special relativity or on the cusp. Same for Newton. So even the greatest individual catalysts of human progress had peers. Focusing on legacy is a mind disease adjacent to narcissism.
It’s pretty hard to both raise a strong family and create billions in wealth. That’s why monetary wealth is a terrible measure of who has wisdom worth listening to.
Absolutely, individual success is one thing, but family legacies are where the real impact shows. Hope your Thanksgiving was full of both joy and reflection! ❤️
