I never feel more alive and excited than when something is there for me to learn. Today the job went from routine and mechanical to full-on thinking caps and financial math in two seconds flat. There is something to be said for the degree of professionalism that is demanded of you when you are expected [...]
You probably know somebody like this. (More than one, if you are lucky, but that belies their extreme rarity, almost to the point of being an endangered species.) The Blessed are the people who dance through life in perfect lockstep with its natural rhythm. Pausing at just the right moments, no false starts. Nailing [...]
Everyone’s a little bit racist It’s true. But everyone is just about As racist as you! If we all could just admit That we are racist a little bit, And everyone stopped being So PC Maybe we could live in – Harmony! – Avenue Q nb: in this post i intentionally entirely ignore gender issues [...]
Beggars can’t be choosers. ~ Anon For the vast majority of humanity, a recurrent problem in life is the relative scarcity of opportunity. This problem exists in many fields, for example investment, romance, and edification, but I find that nowhere is it more striking than in the labor market. Labor economists are well acquainted with [...]
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit [...]
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