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.
May 122021
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
May 112021
Sports are dead, and so is the water cooler to congregate by to discuss them.
Apr 212021
Billionaires start making trouble when they stop making money.
Apr 202021
Never give up what you can postpone indefinitely.
Mar 242021
The more features a product acquires, the worse it becomes at what it was originally designed to do.
Mar 112021
Law of Insufficient Time: It’s always later than you think, even after accounting for the Law of Insufficient Time.
Feb 222021
If you want something done right, get someone to do it who knows how.
Feb 042021
Munitions manufacturers exist because we want to war; cigarette manufacturers because we want to smoke; and manufacturers of lies and imbecilities because we want to believe them.
Jan 272021
Great problems are solved backwards: practice, then theory, and philosophical foundations, if ever, last of all.
Jan 252021
Law of Scientific Consensus: A consensus will form on the hypothesis most likely to confer funding and employment. This hypothesis will always be termed “scientific” and may well be true.