Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.

British politicians used to be good at misleading people without actually lying.

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.

Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time.

The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to work with the aim of being promoted to what he has.

If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to keep going, to throw more money behind it, to throw more emotional energy behind it... that's a real problem.

There's lots and lots of guys out there. The question is trying to find the right one.