Organizations that can't measure performance end up measuring performativeness instead. - Paul Graham

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.

Another reason people don't work on big projects is, ironically, fear of wasting time. What if they fail? Then all the time they spent on it will be wasted. (In fact it probably won't be, because work on hard projects almost always leads somewhere.)

If you invested at the peak of the Nasdaq in March 2000, it would have been roughly 18 years before you were whole again: 15 years before the index reached the same point, plus another 3 for inflation.