Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a creative divergent devil.

Failure comes from fear. Success comes from boldness and persistence.

Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance.

Although I have a variety of obligations, the climate crisis is my central concern.

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

A little water clears us of this deed.