Success stories and survivorship bias
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3Blue1Brown’s speech directed my attention to this truth-nugget by xkcd:
Thought nuggets
2024
Oscar Wilde on “whim”
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Who wants to be consistent? The dullard and the doctrinaire, the tedious people who carry out their principles to the bitter end of action, to the reductio ad absurdum of practice. Not I. Like Emerson, I write over the door of my library the word ‘Whim’.
Climate change meets capitalism
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On a whimsical note, here is a comic strip: