Beware 'almost unlimited upside potential'. So has the lottery. I abandoned my small business that had made a quarter of a million dollars over the years (gross

Beware 'almost unlimited upside potential'. So has the lottery. I abandoned my small business that had made a quarter of a million dollars over the years (gross) to convert it to Patreon: decimated my income, but made it way more stable and predictable. If I wanted to advise young people in such a way that they'd be secure, I'd tell them to (a) go into trades and (b) study some of the entrepreneurial types but apply it to marketing their merits as a tradesman, not as an 'inventor' or 'programmer'. Some of Guy Kawasaki's stuff is quite good that way, generally useful. Anything with 'upside potential' is balanced by a very real risk of getting gruesomely hosed through pursuing that bait. It seems like 'being a human' is one of those 'upside potential' things, and on the whole we're set up to fail.