I'll never understand "ambitious" billionaires. [View all]

Stop trying to change life as we know it. Stop trying to change the world as we know it. Stop fucking up people’s lives. Stop trying to re-invent the wheel. Stop with those stupid fucking boom-mic-to-the-mouth TED talks. Stop trying to be the “only guy who can fix it”. Stop buying greedy, scheming politicians.

You’ve got all the money in the world. Go lay out under a palm tree in The Bahamas. Travel the world. Meet people. But a round of drinks for the whole bar. Play Santa at a homeless shelter for children. See an opera in every major opera city in the world. Go on safari and bring a camera, not a gun. Live incognito at a small hotel in a tiny village in Scotland for a month. Attend a tribal dance festival in Kenya. Visit the great religious structures of the world; cathedrals, mosques, temples, stone circles, etc. Ride a glider over the Alps. Attend Oktoberfest in Munich. Take a trans-Canada train trip in a sleeper car. Do a road trip across the United States. Hop a ride-along on a truck-train through the Outback. Pay your respects at the My Lai Massacre Memorial in Vietnam. Observe a few quiet moments at the site of the village of Lidiče in the Czech Republic.

There are so many things you can do with unlimited funds other than colossally fuck up the only world we have.