In this worn, domesticated world of ours, there are few truly pristine wildernesses, remote regions where no man has gone before, places unseen by human eyes and unexamined by human exploration. And so I suppose we should be especially grateful for the undiscovered country that is Marc Andreessen's soul. As you may have heard, a couple of weeks ago, the billionaire investor went on a podcast and said that he aims to have 'zero' introspection in his life, or at least 'as little as possible.' He added that 'I've found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem.' This whole introspection thing, Andreessen asserted, is a folly invented in the 20th century by people such as Sigmund Freud: 'If you go back 400 years ago, it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective.' As you can imagine, the internet erupted. Andreessen had unwittingly stumbled into one of the great cultural rivalries of modern times. On the one side are the business-world...
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