"What if the model companies do this?" is the new "What if Google does this?" I.e. the meaningless question investors ask that shows either that they… - Paul Graham

... if you’re trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

If you invested at the peak of the Nasdaq in March 2000, it would have been roughly 18 years before you were whole again: 15 years before the index reached the same point, plus another 3 for inflation.

I noticed an interesting equivalence that obtains between two apparently unrelated things. The percentage of live music in restaurants that's not loud enough = the percentage of awards ceremonies that are too short.