Sublime

relationship of earnings and stock prices—the correlation’s very low.

the pursuit of wealth is always a cover story.

The people around us influence how we perceive the global society. In other words, we use our own social milieu to make inferences about how people we don’t know live their lives. But this may backfire when we live in homogeneous social environments and rarely meet people living in different circumstances. English psychologist Rael Dawtry and his c

information emerges naturally in the steady states of physical systems that are out of equilibrium.

Steve Jobs was able to wander around Xerox PARC because those who brought him there trusted him. Once again, this shows that trust encourages the formation of the large networks that our society needs to accumulate knowledge and knowhow, even if trust sometimes works in mysterious ways. Trust contributes to network size by reducing the cost of link

Should anyone care about this tangle of bizarre connections? Only if you

appraisal

In the century and a half since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, we still are stymied by the complexity of the biosphere, and, just as with our financial systems, our efforts to intervene have often led to confounding results.

The environment typically exhibits a range of regularities or niches, that can be exploited by different action sequences or strategies.