“This is a generation that has to sprint just to stay even. I call it Generation Stress.” — Edward Bell, an executive at Ogilvy & Mather in Shanghai A passage from Tap Dancing to Work by Carol J. Loomis

“Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.” — Warren Buffet A passage from Tap Dancing to Work by Carol J. Loomis

“Gates: You have to be careful, if you’re good at something, to make sure you don’t think you’re good at other things that you aren’t necessarily so good at. I come in every day and work with a great team of people who are trying to figure out how to…

“A chief executive, he says, can bring a perspective to pricing that a divisional manager cannot: ‘The manager has just one business. His equation tells him that if he prices a little too low, it’s not that serious. But if he prices too high, he sees himself screwing up the only thing in his life. And no one knows what raising prices will do. For the manager, i’s all Russian roulette. For the chief executive, with more than one thing in his life, it really isn’t. So I would argue that someone with wide experience and distance from the scene should set prices in certain cases.’” A passage from Tap Dancing to Work by Carol J. Loomis

“It is impossible to predict precisely what will develop in investment or speculative markets, and you should be wary of any who claim precision.” — Warren Buffett A passage from Tap Dancing to Work by Carol J. Loomis

One of the most baroque examples of parasitic behavioral control involves so-called zombie ants. Certain species of ants have the misfortune of being prone to infection by a particular species of fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis); the fungus prompts them to climb a plant to certain height and then bite into a…

Everything Everywhere All at Once One of the best movies in my lifetime. Just watch it, if you hate it, go f*** yourself. :)

“When there’s a delusion, a mass delusion, you can say everybody is to blame. I mean, you can say I should have spotted it, you can say the Feds should have spotted it, you can say the mortgage brokers should have, Wall Street should have spotted it and blown the…

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude” — Anne Frank