Today's episode is a feed draw from the LeBoisier podcast and features A16Z general partner,

Catherine Boyle.

She's a part of our American dynamism practice investing in companies that support the national

interest across defense, manufacturing, education, and more.

In this conversation, Catherine shares why she believes seriousness and purpose are underrated in

today's culture, how tech can help rebuild trust in our

institutions, and what it means to make government cool again. Let's get into it.

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I think a society that completely tries to remove suffering from every part of our existence,

and this is, I think, something tech has to deal with too, where the whole point of creating tech is to remove friction.

And we're trying to create this sort of frictionless society. And suffering is innate. It's what gives us character, what gives us resilience.

If you have a childhood and an adolescence trying to remove any aspect of suffering and human nature

from your experience, you do not grow up. You've remained a child. It leads to people

just fumbling around in their 20s, acting as though they're still children, and it leads to a society

in which we still treat 30-year-olds as though they're kids. That is Catherine Boyle.

She's a general partner at Andresen Horowitz and co-founder of the firm's American Dynamism

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