Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mark Buchanan’s Ubiquity, Philip Ball’s Critical Mass, and Paul Ormerod’s Why Most Things Fail.

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.

we are not made to view things as independent from each other. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately to establish a causal link.