Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.

Taking on short term risk can involve switching jobs, joining new groups / associations in the area, launching a personal blog, running an experiment within your existing job. These are some practical ways to inject volatility into your life, and thus some risk.

I to the We means that both the individual's effort and the power of the network matter, and they work in tandem. Someone with no skill won't get very far, no matter how strong the network. Similarly, someone with lots of skill but a weak network won't realize his or her fullest potential. So, you need both.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.