What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to realize that the new comes from here and gets imitated elsewhere. And it is not thanks to universities, which obviously claim a lot more credit than their accomplishments warrant. Like Britain in the Industrial Revolution, America's asset is, simply, risk taking and the use of optionality, this remarkable ability to engage in rational forms fo trial and error, with no comparative shame in failing again, starting again, and repeating failure.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.