A Self-Reinforcing Cycle

Reid Hoffman invests in networks and companies that, as people get into them, the value is added to their life by the other people in the network. Examples of investments:

• Flickr - photo sharing
• Last.fm - music sharing
• Zynga - game playing

• As adults, we're expected to have our lives figured out and become well-put-together people. We often find our calling in our 20s and 30s but not everyone does.
• Thus we look for a purpose towards building our career or a family. While young adults may see ...

• Do we treat the days of our lives like we treat our money? Because we don't exactly know how many days we'll be alive, and because we try our hardest not to think about the fact that someday we'll die, we're pretty liberal with how freely we spend our time. We let people and obligations impo...