Anyone voicing a forecast or expressing an opinion without something at risk has some element of phoniness. Unless he risks going down with the ship … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I reminisce on park jams, my man was shot for his sheep coat
chocolate blunts will make me see him drop in my weed smoke

Making sense and being right are not the same ting (sic) - Fat Tony

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don’t count — there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book, or the equivalent of losing points in a soccer game, and this absence of negative domain for book sales provides the author with a measure of optionality.