Some jobs you keep only if you solve the problem you are charged with, others only if you don’t.
Dec 242021
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Nov 182021
What the machine can do, we need not; and if we need not, soon we cannot.
Nov 172021
The purveyor of a cure does not, unless he is a madman, spread the ill; but he can scarcely help spreading belief in it.
Nov 032021
Modern Westerners are, by historical standards, awash with leisure, much of which we use to complain about working all the time.
Oct 212021
Every charitable foundation does more harm than good, if it lasts long enough, eventually falling into the hands of people who wish to run charitable foundations.
Sep 092021
The modern corporation has turned business — a glamorous pursuit, full of intrigue, danger, and deceit — into bureaucratic drudgery. This is its unpardonable sin.
Sep 032021
There are so many ways to go wrong that every well-made thing is a miracle, to be regarded with reverence, even awe.
Aug 032021
True believers make the best publicists, and they work cheap.
Jul 052021
If you hire for competence, it is still likely that you will get incompetents; if you hire for anything else, it is certain.
May 122021
The micromanager constantly remarks his hatred of micromanaging, as if he were driven to it, as a last resort, by the sheer fecklessness of his underlings.