Remember that just as surgeons don't look like surgeons strong men don't look like athletes in ancient Greek sculptures. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[I]n academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is.

A hotshot is someone temporarily perceived to be of some importance, rather than perceived to be of some temporary importance.

What we saw worldwide from 2014 to 2018, from India to the U.K. to the U.S., was a rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking "clerks" and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy League, Oxford-Cambridge or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think, and… 5) whom to vote for.