Anytime you do something like this, you raise tensions in the institutions.

The government fails to realize if they don't declare it as contraband, how are we supposed to manage tobacco? We're not going to be the smoking police.

We're not going to be the smoking police.

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.

...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.