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If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.
Skin in the Game (2018)
People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.
Skin in the Game (2018)
Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.
Skin in the Game (2018)
Avoid taking advice from someone who gives advice for a living, unless there is a penalty for their advice.
Skin in the Game (2018)
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions.
Skin in the Game (2018)
In case you are giving economic views: Don't tell me what you "think," just tell me what's in your portfolio.
Skin in the Game (2018)
Seeing the psychologist Steven Pinker making pronouncements about things intellectual has a similar effect to encountering a drive-in Burger King while hiking in the middle of a national park.
Skin in the Game (2018)
[I]n academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is.
Skin in the Game (2018)
You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets.
Skin in the Game (2018)
[N]ever engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.
Skin in the Game (2018)
The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.
Skin in the Game (2018)
Evidence of submission is displayed by the employee’s going through years depriving himself of his personal freedom for nine hours every day, his ritualistic and punctual arrival at an office, his denying himself his own schedule, and his not having beaten up anyone on the way back home after a bad day. He is an obedient, housebroken dog.
Skin in the Game (2018)