There is in America an unbridgeable psychological divide, made manifest every April 15th, between those who receive checks from the government and those who write them.
Oct 242019
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Oct 182019
Writing and computer programming are usually done worse when they are done for money.
Sep 202019
It is the quack, needing protective coloration, who affirms most zealously the principles of his profession.
Sep 112019
Journalists used to be raffish and amusing liars, and they are no longer raffish or amusing.
Sep 062019
The best places don’t let people in, and the worst don’t let them out.
Aug 132019
It is crime, of all fields, that most attracts the woefully underqualified.
Jul 292019
Dressing for success is a cargo cult.
Jun 262019
A bureaucracy, like a garage, should be hosed down periodically, to dislodge the stray bits of power accumulating in its crevices and corners like dust and dirt.
Jun 242019
The idea that smoke implies fire cannot survive a professional class of industrious smoke merchants.
May 102019
The common enemy that cements the bonds of the squadron in war is, in theory, the opposing army; in practice it is the brass.