"There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or wa… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"We" are the empirical decision makers who hold that uncertainty is our discipline, and that understanding how to act under conditions of incomplete information is the highest and most urgent human pursuit.

How do you innovate? First, try to get in trouble. I mean serious, but not terminal, trouble. I hold — it is beyond speculation, rather a conviction — that innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity (from the unintended side effects of, say, an initial invention or attempt at invention).

Executive programs allow us to watch people who have never worked lecturing those who have never pondered.