Sublime

But high–power distance

os empreendedores que mantiveram seus empregos apresentaram probabilidade 33% menor de fracassar do que os que se demitiram.

Source: Carlo Cipolla, The Basic Law of Human Stupidity

Second Machine Age, written by the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.

There are fewer opportunities for young men to learn how to create a giant company, and fewer chances to avoid hidden rocks—such as a brilliant innovation by a competing firm. Of course there was a great deal of skill in the Google story, but luck played a more important role in the actual event than it does in the telling of it. And the more luck

“We have seen,” Terman concluded, with more than a touch of disappointment, “that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”

Os CCD falam do contexto geral da doença – como a introdução de uma droga que vicia e o aumento do seu uso podem alterar de tal forma o ambiente de uma cidade a ponto de fazerem com que uma doença se dissemine em grandes proporções.

Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.