Salaried people are just stepparents. They can be good stepparents but it never matches the biological. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You need to realize that the only thing a career academic can really teach you is how to be a career academic.

Rational flâneur (or just flâneur): Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained. In research and entrepreneurship, being a flâneur is called “looking for optionality.

When she shouts that what you did was unforgivable, she has already started to forgive you.