What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.