We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

You need a story to displace a story.