Crystal cave:

[via Massimo]

Average is over, Tyler Cowen:

"There is no high morale without exclusion, no integrity without exclusion, and no corporate culture without exclusion. If the management styles at today's quality companies seem so nice, so friendly, and sometimes so downright heartwarming, it is possible only because those cultures are so very picky, snobbish, and elitist at the same time. There is no open door.

Basically what's happening is that a lot of jobs are becoming more like Google - you have to meet a certain grade or you are out[.]"

The surprising power of the long game:

http://meinnaturwissenschaftsblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-surprising-power-of-long-game.html

finding value:

e.g. spotting the value of some information;

"Absolute Redundanz":

Der Fehlbetrag der Unsicherheit gegenüber der maximalen Unsicherheit.

Conversational Topics - Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness:

Jordan Peterson:

"when I have an agreeable person in my clinical practice, because what happens when they come in is that they instantly start to talk about relationships. So they'll lay out their biography ... A conscientious person will talk about the things they have to do and the things they've done over their life and an open person will say, well, here's the things I'm really interested in, you know, but an agreeable person will say well, from ... 1980 to 1987 I went out with this person and then I had a relationship with this person and so they naturally seemed to configure their biographies in terms of dyadic intimate relationships."

The charm of conversation:

"the charm of conversation is in direct proportion to the possibility of abridgment and elision, and in inverse ratio to the need of explicit statement."

William James