Building good monopoly requires proprietary technology, network effects, and strong brand. The tech advantage must provide 10x improvement over alternatives. Network effects make things more useful as more people use them. Scale allows specialization and creates social proof. Distribution advantages compound and can create network effects themselves.

True knowledge only comes through hard work and innovation—productizing discoveries into value. Constraints breed innovation and unique differentiation. When no one else wanted to tackle a problem, necessity forced unique solutions. Successful businesses thrive on uniqueness and first-principles thinking rather than copying competitors.

What secrets do you know about the world that others don't? Certain truths remain unseen by the public, waiting to be discovered. We're taught incremental learning and told there's nothing left to discover. But there's always new frontier when you push hard enough. Taking unorthodox ideas seriously is prerequisite for finding secrets.