Start by picking a hard problem, and then at every decision point, take the harder choice.9

And yet the authorities still for the most part act as if drugs were themselves the cause of the problem. The real problem is the emptiness of school life.

Wealth is what people want, and if people aren’t using your software, maybe it’s not just because you’re bad at marketing.

An example of a job with both measurement and leverage would be lead actor in a movie. Your performance can be measured in the gross of the movie. And you have leverage in the sense that your performance can make or break it. CEOs also have both measurement and leverage. They’re measured, in that the performance of the company is their performance.

They weren’t left to create their own societies. They were junior members of adult societies.

whole company moving in one direction or another.

children tend to misunderstand wealth. They confuse it with money. They think that there is a fixed amount of it. And they think of it as something that’s distributed by authorities (and so should be distributed equally), rather than something that has to be created (and might be created unequally).

What my friend meant was that he wanted students who were not just good technicians, but who could use their technical knowledge to design beautiful things.

should be “i pensieri stretti & il viso sciolto.” Closed thoughts and an open face. Smile at everyone, and don’t tell