In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood.

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs

The world of comic book collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.