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“I don’t have any idea. I only know I can. The world is invisible to me but perfectly clear to you. The dead are invisible to you and perfectly clear to me.”

“You’re telling me you can see my brother? Right now?”
Norma turned back and stared into the office.
“Yes, he’s lying on your couch.”
“What’s he doing?”
“You really want to know?”
“I asked you, didn’t I?”
“He’s masturbating.”
“Jesus. It’s him

The Scarlet Gospels – Clive Barker

Al-Badri warned the current glut is setting the stage for a future supply shock, with prices lurching from one extreme to another in a deranged market that is in the interests of nobody but speculators. “It is vital that the market addresses the stock overhang,” he said.

Well, Duh. When The Saud announces that they are down to just the last 10% of their wells and there is “no more” their profit will skyrocket and they can just buy their way out of the trouble they are causing

With so many people, what naturally occurs is specialization. There’s a lot of work to do, and no one can master all the game’s systems. So, people specialize, there’s no way around it. It can be compared to an assembly line in a car factory. When people realize they’re just one very replaceable person on a massive production chain, you can imagine it impacts their motivation.

With specialization often comes tunnel-vision. When your expertise is limited to, let’s say, art, level design, performances or whatever, you’ll eventually convince yourself that it’s the most important thing in the game. People become biased towards their own expertise. It makes decision-making a lot more complicated. More often than not, it’s the loudest voice who wins… even if it doesn’t make much sense.

This is a great quote about any workplace with varied skills