"the numbers are sobering. The FDIC currently has about $50.2 billion in its fund — 20% of which will be depleted by the recent IndyMac failure. How many more IndyMacs do we have to look forward too? Who knows." - Dan Hsiao
"And frankly, people here seem to be happier with a little bit of middle management. Not middle management that's going to overrule the decisions they make on their own. Not symbolic middle management that only makes people feel important. But middle management that creates useful channels of communication. If my job is getting obstacles out of the way so my employees can get their work done, these managers exist so that, when an employee has a local problem, there's someone there, in the office next door, whom they can talk to." - Dan Hsiao
I'm definitely not a fan of having processes/bureaucracy for the sake of having processes/bureaucracy, but I'm also not a fan of NOT having processes/bureaucracy for the sake of not having processes/bureaucracy. - Dan Hsiao
"...at last count, the most valuable banknote available was for 50 billion Zimbabwean dollars, now worth barely 70 American cents on the black market..." - fshamsi
