Therapist, n. Assistant witch doctor.
Jul 022018
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Jun 202018
You can never have too many henchmen.
Jun 192018
There is no job so simple that its performance can be measured.
May 252018
You can have loyal subordinates, or competent ones.
Apr 112018
Always speak Truth to Power, once you’re sure Power isn’t going to option your novel.
Apr 042018
Journalists, Kraus said, are writers who do not understand their subject — for which their remedy is to read each other assiduously.
Mar 302018
The modern tragedy is that the procedures that revolutionized science happen to be disastrous when applied anywhere else.
Feb 092018
You don’t fight for your country: you fight for your platoon.
Jan 172018
We say that the perfect is the enemy of the good when we mean that the adequate is the enemy of the shoddy.
Jan 032018
No child aspires to become employable when he grows up.