Michael Lewis
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When Success Belongs to the Individual and Failure Belongs to Society
“Success was individual achievement; failure was a social problem.”— Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine This single line captures something uncomfortable, something we often avoid acknowledging: the asymmetry in how society distributes credit and blame. We love the narrative of the self-made individual. We celebrate the idea that success springs entirely from Continue reading
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Simplicity is Refined Essence: The Illusion of Complexity
“People think that complex is an advanced state of complicated. It is not.A car key is simple. A car is complicated. A car in traffic is complex.”— Zoran Perkov, Head of Technology Operations at IEX, as quoted in Flash Boys by Michael Lewis There’s something quietly profound about this quote. On the surface, it describes Continue reading
