1. Long-term is it. Short-term fluctuates too much.
2. Children don’t care if you like the book or not.
3. Annual reviews strike me as a waste of time. Shouldn’t you be getting feedback year-round?
4. Where was the first banana republic?
5. “Prediction,” as Niels Bohr liked to say, “is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”
–Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Think Like A Freak