1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word. 2. The reader of anything you … - Paul Graham

The first type of judgement is the type where judging you is the end goal... But in fact there is a second much larger class of judgements where judging you is only a means to something else.

If I had a choice of living in a society where I was materially much better off than I am now, but was among the poorest, or in one where I was the richest, but much worse off than I am now, I'd take the first option. If I had children, it would arguably be immoral not to. It's absolute poverty you want to avoid, not relative poverty. If, as the evidence so far implies, you have to have one or the other in your society, take relative poverty.

Two important principles that have a lot in common:

If you make users love you, investors will love you too.

If the people lead, the leaders will follow.