Tag: Idiot

There’s a lesson the world isn’t learning these days, in the 21st century. It’s funny, because it’s an old lesson. And it’s funny, because it keeps being proven in ways big, small, and bigger. But here we are — what is it called when you repeat the same mistakes o...

Let me tell you a secret. Ten years ago, I was an idiot. I drank beers like a 7 Series BMW gasoline to impress people who didn’t care about me. I learned cheesy pick-up lines to get girls — “Hey, did it hurt when you fell from heaven?” I had no idea about how lif...

Once upon a time, in the towering TechX building, there was a buzz of surprise among the employees. One fine day, they discovered their new boss, a mysterious person who seemed to have no experience in the complicated world of technology. This intriguing person was Alex, a smart and charming indi...

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar la...