Curing delusion has become, for psychiatry, a simple matter of demanding that the world see the subject as he sees himself.
Aug 182020
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Aug 172020
A proper jack-of-all-trades must have mastered one or two.
Aug 132020
Wanamaker’s Law: Half of everything is wasted or harmful, and we don’t know which half.
Jul 302020
Where mediocrity is not disqualifying it soon becomes mandatory.
Jul 272020
Employees see poker chips as money: entrepreneurs see money as poker chips.
Jun 182020
A good product fills a need. A great product creates a need that can never be satisfied.
Jun 052020
The businessman wants peace, which is good for his business; and the intellectual wants war, which is good for his.
May 122020
Three’s a crowd — in love, in war, in software development.
May 072020
Those who believe that society can be reengineered rarely have much engineering experience.
Apr 222020
Competence dwarfs all other virtues, and nearly every moral system ever devised aims first at disguising that fact.