be a cockroach

its been a while since i've posted here, but paul's latest essay was interesting as usual and this piece was so amazingly apt, i just couldnt resist posting it:

"Apparently the most likely animals to be left alive after a nuclear war are cockroaches, because they're so hard to kill. That's what you want to be as a startup, initially. Instead of a beautiful but fragile flower that needs to have its stem in a plastic tube to support itself, better to be small, ugly, and indestructible."