Paul Graham：The Top Idea in Your Mind, Excerpt 7

Moving large amounts of money around is never something people treat casually. The attention required increases with the amount—maybe not linearly, but definitely monotonically. [ 3 ] Corollary: Avoid becoming an administrator, or your job will consist of dealing with money and disputes. [ 4 ] Letter to Oldenburg, quoted in Westfall, Richard, Life of Isaac Newton , p. 107. Thanks to Sam Altman, Patrick Collison, Jessica Livingston, and Robert Morris for reading drafts of this.

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