If content were king, Santa would work for the elves.
Nov 202015
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Nov 042015
The Puritans labored, not to persuade God to elect them — that was decided — but to show the neighbors that He had. Status trumps Grace.
Oct 122015
The world has so many bad artists and so few good garbagemen.
Sep 292015
The use of math in economics is to winnow the aspirants.
Sep 172015
“Because I can” is a severely underrated principle of human behavior.
Jun 292015
An actor should be vulgar and insignificant off the stage: we prefer him as someone else.
May 272015
Expert judgment is two parts inconsistency and one part bad memory.
May 072015
You think you have a job. What you have is a consulting company with only one client.
Apr 302015
One cannot read journalism without being struck by how often journalism is its subject.
Apr 272015
It is our grave misfortune to regard the principle of first doing no harm as applying only, or especially, to doctors.