In regards to [1] on wealth, what are your (and everyone else's) thoughts on the following:

> But a very able person who does care about money will ordinarily do better to go off and work with a small group of peers.

That's saying that you'll make more money if you go work (or start) a startup, whereas I've seen some opposite sentiment on HN (don't have specific links, sorry) where people say your expected monetary returns will be higher at GOOG/FB or other big companies because of the high failure chance of startups.