The First Thing That Is Not Obvious

If You Had A Really Good - Battery, It Wouldn't Matter That The Sun Goes Down At Night And The Wind Stops Blowing Sometimes. But At The Moment, Battery Technology Is Nowhere Near Good Enough To Use At Utility Scale.

People Get Cranky When You Burst Their Bubble. Over Time, Advances In Astronomy Have Relentlessly Reinforced The Utter Insignificance Of Earth On A Celestial Scale. Fortunately, Political And Religious Leaders Stopped Barbecuing Astronomers For Saying So, Turning Their Spits With Human-rights Activists Instead.

One Of The Things That I Love To Do Is Travel Around The World And Look At Archaeological Sites. Because Archaeology Gives Us An Opportunity To Study Past Civilizations, And See Where They Succeeded And Where They Failed. Use Science To, You Know, Work Backwards And Say, 'well, Really, What Were They Thinking?'

Software-industry Battles Are Fought By Highly Paid And Out-of-shape Nerds Furiously Pounding Computer Keyboards While They Guzzle Diet Coke. The Stakes Aren't Very Dramatic. Life? Liberty? The Pursuit Of Happiness? Nope, It's About Stock Options.

We Pay For Content That We Like, And We Like The Content We Pay For. It's A Lot More Satisfying To Pay $7.50 For Steven Spielberg's Next Epic Than It Is To Watch My Home Movies For Free. Even For Me.