Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

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

If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.