A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a “solution” and creates a problem. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This is one of the many reasons that journalism may be the greatest plague we face today — as the world becomes more and more complicated and our minds are trained for more and more simplification.

Mother Nature has given us some defense mechanisms: as in Aesop’s fable, one of these is our ability to consider that the grapes we cannot (or did not) reach are sour. But an aggressively stoic prior disdain and rejection of the grapes is even more rewarding. Be aggressive; be the one to resign, if you have the guts.

Universities have been progressing from providing scholarship for a small fee into selling degrees at a large cost.