Fun Things Happen When You Earn Dollars,

The Benefits Of Becoming Fluent In A Foreign Tongue Are As Underestimated As The Difficulty Is Overestimated. Thousands Of Theoretical Linguists Will Disagree, But I Know From Research And Personal Experimentation With More Than A Dozen Languages That (1) Adults Can Learn Languages Much Faster Than Children When Constant 9-5 Work Is Removed And That (2) It Is Possible To Become Conversationally Fluent In Any Language In Six Months Or Less. At Four Hours Per Day, Six Months Can Be Whittled Down To Less Than Three Months.

Luxury Is Feeling Unrushed. It Is Designing A Life That Allows You To Do What You Want With High Leverage, With Many Options, All While Feeling Unrushed.

After Decades Of Hauling Telescopes Around In The Back Of Vans And Going Up To High Altitude Locations And So Forth, I Did Finally Build An Observatory, Here On Sonoma Mountain.

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.

The Least-crowded Channel For Meeting High Profile Bloggers Is In Person. Email Is The Most Difficult, The Most Crowded... I'm A Top 1,000 Blogger, Not A Top 100 Blogger, And I Get Hundreds Of Pitches By Email Every Week. Most Of Them I Don't Even See Because My Assistant Declines Them.