Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Too much success is the enemy, too much failure is demoralizing.

For many people, it takes a lot of preparation to learn to become ordinary.

There are three types of people. 1) Those who say eliminating mosquitoes is a great thing, book a trip to Alaska/Siberia. 2) Those who reflect, & look at second order effects, particularly when those exist: the cause of the Great Famine under Mao. 3) Those who get convexity.