I don't agree with this. You can be very focused on learning and be extremely action-oriented. I've always been deep into reading and philosophy. And I've built large, successful businesses along the way. Including our bitcoin business at Block.

I actually think having a philosophical mind can make you a lot better at avoiding bullshitting yourself and iterating yourself into corners. I credit a lot of my successful predictions and secular bets over the past decade to my predilection to careful counterfactual reasoning about things, that comes from carefully training your mind to challenge its own intuitions.