Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

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

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

A good rule of thumb is as follows: If the numbers come from somebody wearing a tie (Wall Street economist or analyst, industry public relations department, captive think tank academic and so on), you ought to be very skeptical. By design messages from these people are intended to move markets, move merchandise and/or move public policy and are not a comment on the state of the physical universe.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

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

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.