Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Managing the economy without economists is like managing a war without stamp collectors.

When you are employed, hence dependent on other people’s judgment, looking busy can help you claim responsibility for the results in a random environment. The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results and one’s role in them.

Newspapers used to be written by journalists; they are now written for journalists.