In place of “cautious optimism”, I prefer maximally optimistic flight attendants, and maximally pessimistic pilots.[Barbell]
In place of “cautious optimism”
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Things are not harmful…
Things are not harmful because they are fragile, they are harmful because people don’t know that they are fragile.
Added to Prologue:
Added to Prologue:Incidentally, for those who think that academia is “quieter” and a 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…
Every new year I…
Every new year I face the realization that the hardest problem in life is knowing exactly what to wish for, owing to side effects; execution no matter how hard, is much more tractable.Merry Christmas everyone.
(comment: stuff I write with my emotions…
(comment: stuff I write with my emotions, like Fooled by Randomness, or the stories in The Black Swan, I don’t even bother editing; stuff I write with my brain I need to re-write).