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It’s Time to Get Serious
It’s Time to Get Serious
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Prevailing wisdom insists that your twenties are for extreme exploration—collecting memories, friends, partners, identities. It’s BS.
By Katherine Boyle
01.17.23 — Culture and Ideas
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It’s Time to Get Serious

One of the most striking essays we have run since the start of this publication is called The Case for American Seriousness. (We loved it so much we had the author, Katherine Boyle, read it aloud on Honestly.)

The piece made the argument that at the root of the problems we face as a nation is a problem of seriousness. Or rather, a lack of it. That we hav…

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Katherine Boyle

Katherine Boyle is a venture capitalist and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. She is the co-founder of the American Dynamism practice, which invests in companies building to support the national interest.

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