Quotation of the Day
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. John Wooden
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How to pick a career
When exploring what type of career to pursue, legendary strength Coach Dan John believes that you’ve found a career if and only if you can answer the following 3 questions: Do you love it? Are you any good at it? Does anyone need you to do it? If the answer is ‘yes’ to all 3…
Quotations of the Day
“You become what you think about.” “I’m not going to start something I won’t do the rest of my life” Dan John, Easy Strength Omnibook.
Quotation of the Day
A great conversation is between two people who think the other is wrong. A bad conversation is between those who think something is wrong with you. Micah Goodman, as written in David Brooks’ book How to Know a Person
Quotation of the Day: On travel
Such are the prosaic problems of the modern traveller. The transport part takes no time at all these days; it is the bureaucracy that is interminable. We are constantly being told that we live in a world without borders, in a globalized age, but only if you have the right passport and the right papers.…
Quotation of the Day
We ought not be ashamed of appreciating the truth and of acquiring it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. For the seeker of truth, nothing takes precedence over the truth, and there is no disparagement of the truth, nor belittling either of him who speaks…
Quotation of the Day
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” Oscar Wilde
Quotation of the Day: On Economist’s vs. Engineer’s algorithms
An economist’s algorithm, at its best, values being simple, being reasonably easy to analyze, and having clear mathematical properties that show why it’s optimal (or least-bad) for the task that it’s trying to solve, and ideally proves bounds on how much damage someone can do by trying to exploit it. An engineer’s algorithm, on the…
Quotations of the Day: On change and familiarity
In politics: He who desires to attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different…
Quotations of the Day: ISPOR Edition
As heard at ISPOR 2023 in Boston: On high US drug prices: “My hope as a European is that US never gets its health system in order.” And his Yoda-like pronouncement: “Affordability is important; but value is critical” Michael Drummond HT: Peter Neumann. See also Dr. Neumann’s ISPOR recap thread