You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.