Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it’s understandable).

Don't be a perfectionist, because perfectionists often spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of other big, important things. Be an effective imperfectionist. Solutions that broadly work well (e.g., how people should contact each other in the event of crises) are generally better than highly specialized solutions (e.g., how each person should contact each other in the event of every conceivable crisis).

You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.