Education & intellectualization make people think in Universal terms for local problems, with no awareness of Scalability. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Every time you use a coffeemaker for your morning cappuccino, you are benefiting from the fragility of the coffeemaking entrepreneur who failed. He failed in order to help put the superior merchandise on your kitchen counter.

In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.

Well kept secret: for selfowned people, unlike the rest, the ability to make money (hence make decisions) does not really decline with age.