Jul 30, 2021
On points 2, 3 and 4: the problem is that some of the best ignorance-killing books I later read had not yet been written when I most needed them: https://medium.com/illumination-curated/10-books-i-wish-id-read-before-i-was-23-d93fb199f6f6 .
Since you're a Vietnam vet this might interest you:
It's part of a series of three.
My draft lottery number a month before my 18th birthday on January 26, 1973 was 96. Luck is not a strategy, but it's important. Then blessed by late birth. Now blessed by early birth.