언어/Skin in the game11 23년 1월 8일 p.70~p.72 p.71 As the Romans were fully aware, one lauds merrily the merchandise to get rid of it. p.71 You can give advice, or you can sell (by advertising the quality of the product), and the two need to be kept separate. p.72 Diogenes held that the seller ought to disclose as much as civil law requires. As for Antipater, he believed that everything ought to be disclosed —beyond the law- so that there w.. 2023. 1. 8. 7월10일 I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the “intellectual” profession who bothers me. 59p Books should be organized the way the reader reads, or wants to read, and according to how deep the author wants to go into a topic, not to make life easy for the critics to write reviews. Book reviewers are bad middlemen; they are currently in the process of being disintermediated ju.. 2020. 7. 11. 7월 7일 Thou shalt not become antifragile at the expense of others. Simply, asymmetry in risk bearing leads to imbalances and, potentially, to systemic ruin. Skin in the game 57p Simply: if you can’t put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else. 58p 2020. 7. 8. 7월 6일 That is, the voyeur who wants to watch but not take risks? p.55 I write because that’s what I am designed to do, just as a knife cuts because that’s what its mission is, Aristotle’s arête —and subcontracting my research and writing to China or Tunisia would (perhaps) increase my productivity, but deprive me of my identity. p.56 So people might want to do things. Just to do things, because they f.. 2020. 7. 7. 7월 5일 Entrepreneurs are heroes in our society. They fail for the rest of us. But owing to funding and current venture capital mechanisms, many people mistaken for entrepreneurs fail to have true skin in the game in the sense that their aim is to either cash out by selling the company they helped create to someone else, or “go public” by issuing shares in the stock market. The true value of the company.. 2020. 7. 5. 6월 28일 Skin in the game can make boring things less boring. When you have skin in the game, dull things like checking the safety of the aircraft because you may be forced to be a passenger in it cease to be boring. If you are an investor in a company, doing ultra-boring things like reading the footnotes of a financial statement (where the real information is to be found) becomes, well, almost not borin.. 2020. 6. 28. 이전 1 2 다음