Life's beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an outsider not interested in reciprocation. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don’t count — there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book,

If majority of academics vote Democrat, it is not random: they 1) don't have skin in the game, (others take risks for them) 2) are not productive members of society but want to lecture others on what to do 3) have steady income etc.