Accidents happen not when alarms fail to go off, but when they go off too often.
Dec 302016
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Nov 042016
The one indispensable element in starting a business is gross overconfidence.
Oct 112016
Nothing offends like efficacy.
Aug 302016
It’s a dog-eat-dog world, unless the dogs happen to belong to the same professional guild.
Aug 092016
It is often only slightly more trouble to do a thing well than to do it badly.
Jul 072016
The burden of mastery is to feel forever like a fraud.
Jun 132016
Apprenticeship, mastery, eminence, death.
Apr 012016
The most useful lists contain one item.
Mar 222016
War puts the pacific virtues to use, but peace can do nothing with the martial ones.
Mar 112016
Occasionally the operation succeeds but the patient dies; far more often it fails but the patient survives.