true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.