Sebastian Vetterlein

Mathematically, if you were to improve 1% daily, you’d be 100% better in approximately 70 days due to the power of compounding.

I remember the incoming freshman speech like it was yesterday. The message from the dean at the time, John Lavine, can be reduced to this: “You’ve made a noble decision to pursue the most righteous profession in existence — but you’re all fucked. If it’s long-term employment you’re after, the school of engineering is just a few hundred paces up the road.”

[2] I’m not sure what an appropriate punishment for NIMBYs is. Hopefully there’s a circle of hell where the weather is terrible and there’s plenty of raw material to build shelter, but every time you construct so much as a lean-to it’s torn down by demons belowing about zoning restrictions, shadow cover, and the habitats of endangered tapeworms.