A batch of the best highlights from what Louis's read, .
A horse which has been often driven along a certain road resists the attempt to drive him in a different direction. Domestic animals expect food when they see the person who usually feeds them. We know that all these rather crude expectations of uniformity are liable to be misleading. The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.
Predicting the Future With Bayes’ Theorem
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You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers want, and to spend as little money as possible
Tren Griffin - A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs
2017, Columbia University Press
But Willie belonged to the first generation of Vanderbilts to feel that their primary purpose in life was to consume, which wasn’t much of a purpose. In 1920, shortly before he died, he was quoted in the *New York Times* saying, “My life was never destined to be quite happy. . . . Inherited wealth is a real handicap to happiness. It is as certain a death to ambition as cocaine is to morality.”
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty