You can lose money and make it back, you can't do that with time.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

What's the worst that could happen?

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.