Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers strike it rich.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.