CORRECTED EARLIER POST (happy to be human) –

Incidentally, for those who think that academia is “quieter” and a emotionally soothing transition after the volatile risk-taking business life, a surprise: when in action, new problems and scares emerge every day to displace and eliminate the previous day’s headaches, resentments, and conflicts. A nail displaces another nail. But academics seem to hate each other; they live in petty obsessions, envy, and hatreds, with small snubs developing into grudges, fossilized over time in the loneliness of the transaction with a computer screen… Contact with the brutish world of words on PDF pages reignited my love of the transactional : commerce, business, markets, Levantine souks (though not large-scale markets), activities and places that bring their best in people, makes them forgiving, honest, loving, trusting, and open-minded. I want to be happy to be human and be in an environment in which other people are in love of their fate —and never thought that it was a certain form of commerce. Matt Ridley made me feel that it was truly the Phoenician in me that was the intellectual.

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