If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.