That doing good is a deliberate act: I have 'decided' to be a better son, a better bother, a better friend, a better lover, a better human than I were the day before.

This made it that even though my lifestyle is so much different than my family's and that of most of society, we still get along on a deeper level.

Deciding to have the hard conversations. Some ten minute conversations have had the highest 'return on investment'.

Deciding to always aim at the meta-thing right after I have the thing. One specific example is asking a question on the #python IRC channel years ago about a library and receiving an answer from someone who's never used it, immediately thanking them and asking how they did to find the answer. That process was much more valuable to me, because I could use it on other things [they did a git grep on the repo].

Deciding to use money as an instrument for myself and others. I mostly buy time and experiences. I did it when I was in highschool and continue to do so now.

Ars longa, vita brevis.