You want your enemies to complain about you. The more they complain, the better. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Without skin in the game: Smart drug dealers become pharmacopsychiatrists; smart astrologists become economists; smart serial killers write for the Wash Post; smart bullshitters become "experimental" psychologists; and smart bankrobbers become bankers.

Two weekends in Philadelphia are not twice as pleasant as a single one — I’ve tried.

Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.