We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

By setting oneself totally free of constraints, free of thoughts, free of this debilitating activity called work, free of efforts, elements hidden in the texture of reality start staring at you; then mysteries that you never thought existed emerge in front of your eyes.

I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.