The Importance of Projection Forward

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"I'm really happy to be alive. And I think everything else is gravy," he says. "The yield on my time is pretty fantastic, right? But you could imagine another universe in which the price that you paid other costs, as you said, in terms of your sanity, definitely would be so extreme that it may not be worth it."

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