Today, Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense. With no shortage of problems, and no shortage of both young technologists and well-capitalized former founders capable of solving them, our best and brightest have largely lost themselves to easy money, the attention grind, and early retirement. In tech especially, for all of the industry’s rare potential, such abdication of responsibility does not only constitute a failure of progress, but a moral failure.

Trae Stephens is a partner at Founders Fund, and cofounder of Anduril. Markie Wagner is the founder of Delphi Labs, a frontier tech research and advisory firm with a focus on applied AI. They are also both wonderful, committed nerds, and they guest this week with a helpful framework for parsing the problem of problems —

Where do you choose to dedicate your life?