New things have some benefits but deeper downsides like addiction, pollution, scattered focus, or wasted time. The marketing shouts the benefits and hides the harm. But the benefits rarely outweigh the downsides. Only time will tell.

Avoid difficult business problems. Your time is more profitably spent doing what comes easily to you.

Here’s how to live: Intertwine with the world.

Live where nothing is happening. Move to a quiet place with lots of nature and no ambition. Doing nothing is normal there.

You must both be free and able to live without each other. Be together by choice, not necessity or dependence. Love your partner, but don’t need your partner. Need is insatiable. Need destroys love.

Move to the most ambitious place in your field. (Actor? Hollywood. Tech? Silicon Valley. Etc.) Expectations there are so high that they’ll help push you to be the best. You want the pressure. You want the stress.

Making money is proof you’re adding value to people’s lives. Aiming to get rich is aiming to be useful to the world.

But never try to fix them. When someone tells you what’s broken, they want you to love the brokenness, not try to eliminate it.

Rules give you freedom from your desires.