“What can you do feel more ease at work? Act responsibly: “I belong here, and it’s ok to have my particular skills here, and my limitations, too. My code works, the work that I do is important to somebody else.” Make all status information public: “I make public commitments, I make myself accountable. Transparency at work yields freedom from fear of embarrassment.” Value feedback appropriately: take it in context, be realistic; don’t give in to flattery or attack.

“..this is where our senior managers, with hundreds of presentations under their belts, screw up. They’ve stopped fretting, which means their presentations lack any sort of energy. They don’t listen to the audience, so when the audience asks for something, they don’t give it. This is why they sound like bad used car salesmen; they’re just reciting the sales pitch and they don’t care what you think.

“You played a con man, I believed it.

“Sponsors and television channels can’t afford to lose India early [in the next World Cup]. So expect the format to be tweaked to ensure India’s presence at the business end.

“We’re determined to keep the site focused, however many users we get. We kill submissions that are egregiously off-topic.

“The less complex you make things, the less things can go wrong.

“Ultimately, the Indian government has to pull off a very tough trick, making serious changes at a time when things seem to be going very well. It needs, in other words, a clear sense of everything that can still go wrong.

“There was a time when many economists believed that post-secondary education didn’t have much impact on economic growth. The really important educational gains, they thought, came from giving rudimentary skills to large numbers of people (which India still needs to do—at least thirty per cent of the population is illiterate). They believed that, in economic terms, society got a very low rate of return on its investment in higher education. But lately that assumption has been overturned, and the social rate of return on investment in university education in India has been calculated at an impressive nine or ten per cent. In other words, every dollar India puts into higher education creates value for the economy as a whole. Yet India spends roughly three and a half per cent of its G.D.P. on education, significantly below the percentage spent by the U.S., even though India’s population is much younger, and spending on education should be proportionately higher.

“The Sri Lankans allowed only 46 in the first ten overs, and 118 in the last 16, but they lost the game in the 12 overs in between, as Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden blasted 117 at nearly ten per over.

“To be fair, a tax system must have total transparency––each taxpayer must know what s/he is paying and what everyone else is paying.

To be fair, a tax system cannot have any exceptions. One exception opens the door to those who can afford to game the system.

To be fair, a tax system must be simple. The more complex it is, the easier it is to game the system.