How Useful Are You?

And the not-so-secret to being perpetually and especial useful, which you probably don't want to hear but is the key to the good life.

Imagine you’re Salvator Mundi.

The Salvator Mundi. The painting:

You’re looking in the mirror.

Leonardo da Vinci created you around the year 1500. Five hundred and seventeen years later, you sold for $450.3 million.

What a great moment! You’re worth almost half a billion dollars! How self-affirming.

But then you get locked away in storage.

You’ve been hang…