An Economy Is Not A Complicated Thing;

For Me, The Best Things In Life - Meaningful Work, Meaningful Relationships, Interesting Experiences, Good Food, Sleep, Music, Ideas, Sex, And Other Basic Needs And Pleasures - Are Not, Past A Certain Point, Materially Improved Upon By Having A Lot Of Money.

I Believe That Our Society's "mistake-phobia" Is Crippling, A Problem That Begins In Most Elementary Schools, Where We Learn To Learn What We Are Taught Rather Than To Form Our Own Goals And To Figure Out How To Achieve Them. We Are Fed With Facts And Tested And Those Who Make The Fewest Mistakes Are Considered To Be The Smart Ones, So We Learn That It Is Embarrassing To Not Know And To Make Mistakes. Our Education System Spends Virtually No Time On How To Learn From Mistakes, Yet This Is Critical To Real Learning.

Radical Transparency Is Critical To Having An Idea Meritocracy Because It Shows What's Actually Happening Without Spin And Prevents People From Maneuvering Politically Behind Each Others' Backs. It Brings Problems And Weaknesses To The Surface And Allows People To See How They Are Dealt With, So It's Great For Training People On How To Deal With Real Problems.

That's What I Mean By Radical Truth. I Mean Accepting Reality.

I've Learned That Each Mistake Was Probably A Reflection Of Something That I Was (or Others Were) Doing Wrong, So If I Could Figure Out What That Was, I Could Learn How To Be More Effective.