The catch.....................

 

Everyone has something to teach you, even if neither of you realizes it.

The catch is: it’s not their job to show you, it’s your job to figure out what you can learn.

-Mark Manson, from here

no fixed rules......................

Money is less about numbers and more about stories—stories we tell ourselves about what matters, what makes us happy, and how we measure success.

     Spending money is more art than science.  There's no universal formula, no fixed rules.  What brings one person joy may leave another feeling empty.  And so, just as with investing, understanding our emotions—our biases, hopes and fears—can guide us toward smarter choices.  Choices that reflect who we are, what we value, and how we want to live.

-Morgan Housel, from the Author's Note to The Art of Spending Money

On calculations..................

 

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

-Isaac Newton, as quoted here

Wither go the hounds of AI..........

 

At President Trump’s request, Elon Musk has let loose the hounds of AI on the immobile carcass of the federal bureaucracy. For the first time in a century, the entire structure has become intelligible to the president. Horizontally, he can discover the endless cutouts and rabbit holes in which an agency’s taxpayer dollars have been wasted on bizarre causes and self-interested groups. Vertically, he can follow the funds allocated under his signature for—say—bridge repair to the actual bridge and track the actual repairs. Trillion-dollar players, accustomed to working in opaque and unaccountable bureaucratic lairs, find themselves exposed to the eyes of an angry public, as the walls around them turn to glass. The revolutionary character of this transformation is impossible to exaggerate. It’s as if AI suddenly shrank Leviathan to the dimensions of a guppy in a fishbowl.

-Martin Gurri, from here