Vivienne Ming Quotes
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If you tell someone, 'Hey, your daughter is going to win a Nobel Prize someday,' it makes it less likely. If you say, 'Your son is in danger of dropping out in the ninth grade,' it could make it more likely.
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Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must have the qualities you desire, even though that's not actually really true.
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Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?
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We are bad at valuing other people, and we are worse the more different they are than us.
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Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.
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If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me how to live a life of substance.