> What the ordinary person might interpret as a con game or sheer lunacy, the heavily credentialed investor, with his TED Talk understanding of things, will rel

> What the ordinary person might interpret as a con game or sheer lunacy, the heavily credentialed investor, with his TED Talk understanding of things, will reliably regard as brilliant eccentricity. Most people are more scared of looking silly than they are excited about getting rich. The handful who aren't occasionally make a bad investment (Theranos, WeWork, etc.) but also a lot of them become centimillionaires and billionaires. I'm definitely in the "more scared of looking silly" category, but I like to think I also have the self-awareness to recognize this as a character flaw, and not broadcast it proudly and obliviously to the whole world in the NYT.