The cult of MBAs pretending to be hackers believes that success is entirely self-determined and self-controlled; if they just rearranged their Rolodex and pulled their $300 hoodie strings slightly differently they'd surely become billionaires. And they will, never mind that they haven't done it yet despite ten to twenty years of adulthood spent failing to with no change in approach.

Does Marc Andreessen have a MBA? He first became famous as a programmer.

I was talking about the people who read interviews like this looking for wisdom on "productivity" rather than Andreessen.

I don’t know if that’s fair criticism. From their about page:

> The Observer Effect studies interesting people and institutions and tries to understand how they work.

Seems like they did what they said they do?

What would you want to ask him?

I enjoyed it, great takeaway that even at a16z scale it is possible to focus on process improvement as the goal because quantitative lag measurements are too slow to iterate and improve efficiently.

Isn’t he a big investor in Superhuman, that one email app?

Expect Superhuman to announce new calendaring features soon and a follow up interview about how the thing he has a stake in has completely changed his life.