“The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one I after the other.” Daniel Kahneman (1934 – March 27, 2024) I last met with the late Daniel Kahneman, or Danny, as everyone called him, at the 2019 Bloomberg New Economy Forum in China. For years, I
We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know – Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024), Princeton University economist, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics Science in 2002. Okay, so it wasn’t just the two of us – there were a few
Less cats, ok, great. – Keith quotes from Dumb Money (2023) The new movie ‘Dumb Money’ dramatises the true story of an unlikely messiah named Roaring Kitty who decides to sink his life savings into shares of the video game seller GameStop and then praise the stock to his fans.
There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. – Drew Barrymore, American actress, producer, talk show host and author. When I was about six years old, I distinctly remember university students frequently visiting our home. They were asked by my grandfather to teach my mother how to
Mathematics is the most beautiful and powerful creation of the human spirit – Stefan Banach, 1892-1945, Polish mathematician. I was recently doing KenKen, a Japanese math puzzle, on a plane when a fellow passenger asked me why I bothered. I replied that I did it for the beauty. Okay, I’ll
‘Love is like money. Hard to find easy to lose.’ – Scott Campbell, vice president of Goldman Sachs. ‘The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore.’ – Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American writer. I
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god – Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986), Argentine short-story writer, essayist and poet. Respectfully, while I identify as Christian, my commitment to the faith is primarily in name only. Somehow, this raised concerns for Gregori, a respected Bahá’í
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart – Rachel Adams, English language coach, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. A British friend of mine said that
Everything is unprecedented until it happens for the first time Chesley B. Sullenberger, former airline pilot and writer. It was only when I attempted to make small talk with my visibly squirming seatmate on a Dubai to Singapore flight that I realised it was me causing that look of horror
One would never undertake writing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing
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