Linear relationships are truly the exception; we only focus on them in classrooms and textbooks because they are easier to understand. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Web is an unhealthy place for someone hungry for attention.

While in the past people of rank or status were those and only those who took risks, who had the downside for their actions, and heroes were those who did so for the sake of others, today the exact reverse is taking place. We are witnessing the rise of a new class of inverse heroes, that is, bureaucrats, bankers, Davos-attending members of the I.A.N.D. (International Association of Name Droppers), and academics with too much power and no real downside and/or accountability. They game the system while citizens pay the price.

Modernity’s double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.