Adrian Bordinc

“Blaise Pascal, the famous French mathematician and physicist, wrote in Lettres Provinciales (translated), “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.”
― Carl Anderson, Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

“Everyone in the organization should have access to as much data as legally possible.”
― Carl Anderson, Creating a Data-Driven Organization: Practical Advice from the Trenches

“Fifty years ago, I published a study2 devoted to a specific type of depression I had diagnosed in cases of young patients suffering from what I called “unemployment neurosis.” And I could show that this neurosis really originated in a twofold erroneous identification: being jobless was equated with being useless, and being useless was equated with having a meaningless life. Consequently, whenever I succeeded in persuading the patients to volunteer in youth organizations, adult education, public libraries and the like—in other words, as soon as they could fill their abundant free time with some sort of unpaid but meaningful activity—their depression disappeared although their economic situation had not changed and their hunger was the same. The truth is that man does not live by welfare alone.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Beware of the person who gives advice, telling you that a certain action on your part is “good for you” while it is also good for him, while the harm to you doesn’t directly affect him.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life