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

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

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.

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

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

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