Me?

Good advice on picking your battles & giving them agency. A kid who’s never decided anything for themselves takes a long time to grow up.

How about this:

Dan Patrick, Texas’ Lieutenant Governor.

Hmm... Vote against your self-interest?

Or wait & earn millions of dollars exploiting bugs in Facebook’s Libra crypto currency.

Weird? Maybe. But it’s better than causing frustration to the recipient.

Good points, Nicole - the focus on “differential progress” is good advice. I’ll add some that have served me well.

Hah - forgot about the pronunciations. My cognitive dissonance has faded.

Also - there are unofficial nicknames for freeways that aren’t signed, so radio traffic reports may be useless.

I’ll add: If you’re transiting Houston to points beyond between 7AM and 7PM - east/west or north/south, take the outermost ring road (99, 8, 610) that you can. Do not try to take freeways through town during prime drive time. It’s a trap!

I’m getting more “badly carved Howdy Doody” than anything else.

This is a short list:

This is easy. Take $10 to your local home improvement big box store.

Never kiss anything on the mouth that can lick its own asshole.

That’s a fair point - you’ve gotta prioritize the severity & timing of the demands on your resources.

Eh - depends.

Or, if having too much money is morally wrong, it lets you retire *early* and dedicate your time to worthy causes.

You want a real mind-fuck?

Bookmark the IRS Contribution Limits page and get as close to this limit as you can afford - even if it hurts today.