The combination problem is the most difficult aspect of panpsychism.
Experience is overrated. When hiring, hire for aptitude, train for skills. Most really amazing or great things are done by people doing them for the first time.
The biggest enemy of technology is inertia.
I'm the same person I always was. I haven't changed just because I won the Ballon d'Or.
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.