In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

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.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.