Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first.

The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

What does it mean to be yourself?” he asked. “If it means to do what you think you ought to do, then you’re doing that already. If it means to act like you’re exempt from society’s influence, that’s the worst advice in the world; you would probably stop bathing and wearing clothes. The advice to ‘be yourself’ is obviously nonsense. But our brains accept this tripe as wisdom because it is more comfortable to believe we have a strategy for life than to believe we have no idea how to behave.

We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.

Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.