Basic income + direct democracy is a friction-free path to complete redistribution of all wealth. - Naval Ravikant

If raising children was less rewarding than not doing it, the human race would have gone extinct.

Politics and merit are opposite ends of a spectrum.

More political organizations are less productive, have less inequality, and top performers opt out.

More merit based organizations have higher productivity, more inequality, and higher odds of internal fracture.

If you’re going to live in a city for ten years, if you’re going to be in a job for five years, if you’re in a relationship for a decade, you should be spending one to two years deciding these things. These are highly dominating decisions. Those three decisions really matter. You have to say no to everything and free up your time so you can solve the important problems. Those three are probably the three biggest ones.