H.K. Chen

In other words, Many problems in society come from the interventionism of people who sell complicated solutions because that’s what their position and training invites them to do. There is absolutely no gain for someone in such a position to propose something simple: you are rewarded for perception not results. They pay no price for the side effects that grow nonlinearly with such complications.

…ment were profitable. Remarkably, after a while, I got to effortlessly understand what Jimmy meant. I also learned, in my early twenties, that the people you understood the most were necessarily those were the bull***ters.

What can be phrased and expressed in a clear narrative that convinces suckers will be a sucker trap.