Random thoughts

• Most disruptions can be taken apart into smaller pieces, which in turn often are merely small linear, evolutionary steps. Just like the metaphorical boiling frog if you look at only the small delta, you miss the big change that can make things really hot for you.
• Flexibility and adaptability is crucial for survival. Interestingly enough people seem to cling onto ideologies even in situations where the pragmatic option would be to change your stance. Like in martial arts, fixing yourself into one stance will again land you in a tight situation when the circumstance changes.
• An offshoot of the previous and originally from some smarter person: communism for 20-somethings stems out of passion, but communism for 40-somethings stems out of idiocy.
• "I'd rather be a shareholder than a customer of [insert any bank here]." Because of incentives, banks tend to take better care of shareholders than customers.