if you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’
Quotes
on living wrongly
Most people work long, hard hours at jobs they hate that enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like. – Nigel Marsh
on stockpiling and subsidies
But stockpiling and subsidies for the poor are considered trade-distorting under existing WTO rules
on relevant questions and Apple
You are in the jungle. You have a pocket-knife. Someone asks you to kill a mountain lion. Anyone but a programmer would be asking “WTF is a MOUNTAIN lion doing in a JUNGLE?!”
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on rock star economy
so-called rock star economy was actually on the rocks
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