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Tufte offered wise advice on how to get started. "Making this transition in large organizations requires a straightforward executive order: From now on your presentation software is Microsoft Word, not PowerPoint. Get used to it." That is essentially what we did.
Working Backwards
Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
Shader was caught up in a mimetic value game. The investors who modeled their own desirability—who postured as selective and demanding—took on a higher value in his mind than the one investor who didn’t. Elite colleges don’t keep their admissions rates low because they have to; they keep them low to protect the value of their brands.
It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes. They say there are two sides to everything. But there is only one side to the stock market; and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side. It took me longer to get that general principle fixed firmly in my mind than it did most of the more technical phases of the game of stock speculation.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre
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