My objective is to die with my shoes on. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There are three types of large corporations: those about to go bankrupt, those that are bankrupt and hide it, those that are bankrupt and don't know it.

We see the obvious and visible consequences, not the invisible and less obvious ones. Yet those unseen consequences.., generally are more meaningful.

Study something old but not visibly useful (classics), something modern and useful (accounting, coding), never something new and not visibly useful.