Games are all about taking risks.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes.

Writing a book makes you an expert in the field. At the very least, when you hand someone a book you wrote, it's more impressive than handing a business card.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.