I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

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

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.