Gaurav

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“...they sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents and take credit for how fast they’re growing.”
― Dan Lyons, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

“Historians imposed false order upon random events, too, probably without even realizing what they were doing. Amos had a phrase for this. “Creeping determinism,” he called it—and jotted in his notes one of its many costs: “He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions.”
― Michael Lewis