it is a well-known trick that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

My dear Socrates … you know why they are putting you to death? It is because you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions. You may be occasionally right. But you may confuse them about things they’ve been doing just fine without getting in trouble. You are destroying people’s illusions about themselves. You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don’t understand. And you have no answer; you have no answer to offer them.

God created Monte Carlo and similar places so extremely rich people would come experience extreme envy.

companies trying to misrepresent the product they sell by playing with our cognitive biases, our unconscious associations, and that’s sneaky. The latter is done by, say, showing a poetic picture of a sunset with a cowboy smoking and forcing an association between great romantic moments and some given product that, logically, has no possible connection to it. You seek a romantic moment and what you get is cancer.