When intelligent people succumb to ideology, their intellect ceases to guard against wishful thinking and instead begins to fortify it, causing them to inadvertently mastermind their own delusion, and to very cleverly become stupid.
My new essay.
https://t.co/NrrKdgZfpi
One of the most legendary marketers of all time: David Ogilvy
In 1982, David wrote an internal memo to the employees of his advertising agency titled "How to write."
And in just 10 bullets he put together a masterclass in effective writing.
Here's a breakdown of each one:
We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
- @nntaleb
GoI issues advisory to all SM platforms asking them to remove any & every content that names, refers to or even implies at 'Indian variant' of corona virus. While welcome, this should have been done at the first instance of the use of the term. Look at how Singapore reacted.
TOI EXC:A check by engineers of Bharat Electronics Ltd(BEL) & assmnt by central team find states inc Punjab mismangd ventillator instaln,dumpd thm as non-functionl
1.Didnt change consumables:Flow & O2 sensors
2.Didnt recalib pressure acc to geographcl loc
https://t.co/6tlVrQ6Lgh
Big news! Abhimanyu Mishra—the youngest IM ever—just scored a 2nd GM norm in Hungary. He needs 1 more and likely 30-40 points before September 2021 to become the youngest Grandmaster in history.
In a fire, fools always hope for the worst and run away far from their houses. Blaming everyone else.
It’s only the brave and the wise who firefight and rebuild fool’s house.
I have thus far maintained my silence on the Apple situation as I've sought to settle things amicably with the company that I admired, and at which I hoped to build the future of ads privacy.
As they however are not maintaining their silence on the matter, neither will I.
So the 'Adman' who kept shouting that we need to make a hospital and not a Mandir has replied to the RTI that not a single new bed was made available in Delhi during his tenure, leave aside building a hospital.