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It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.