They say there are only two people you should truly listen to in your life. Not your closest family, not your customers, but yourself at age 8 and 80.

Overfitting is not the way to implement optimism. Rather, focus on unbounded positivity.

I like to consider myself an optimist. It feels good, it’s effective in producing useful artifacts, and it makes moral sense.

I want to start asking two questions to gauge my feelings on something: am I working on something useful and rewarding, and am I doing it with people who I love and who love me back?

My thesis is that a plurality of families bring up children with suppressed personalities that can easily spiral into destructive patterns when faced with certain environmental variables such as stress, profit/money, loss, or loneliness.

Some advice is better than others. It can be more true, or it can be more relevant to the challenges in question. This is simple to determine and filter.

We all have our own audiences. Starting with ourselves, and working our way out to potentially millions of people.