Author: Medecci Lineil

The comeback Kings

This team simply never gives in. Fighting until the final whistle is in our blood – Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid coach. There was nothing. There was no noise. The stadium Santiago Bernabéu stood silent, subdued, waiting for the bell to toll. There was no spark.  Real Madrid had long since

62 seconds of magic

Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you – Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet. Three years ago, in the middle of the night, my wife, kids and I drove from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Dublin to catch an early morning flight to Munich, Germany.

The teacher who saw me

Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist and writer. A friend made a thoughtful Thanksgiving suggestion in an email last week. He encouraged us to reach out to “someone whose creative work means a lot

Sweet potato fries

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live – Dr Jillian, hepatologist at Columbia Irving Medical Centre, New York, US. When Jillian was pregnant and working in the intensive care unit (ICU), she disguised her growing abdomen with the largest fleece

Mensch amongst madness

“The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one I after the other.” Daniel Kahneman (1934 – March 27, 2024) I last met with the late Daniel Kahneman, or Danny, as everyone called him, at the 2019 Bloomberg New Economy Forum in China. For years, I

An evening with the Godfather

We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know – Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024), Princeton University economist, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics Science in 2002. Okay, so it wasn’t just the two of us – there were a few

Fools rush in

Less cats, ok, great. – Keith quotes from Dumb Money (2023) The new movie ‘Dumb Money’ dramatises the true story of an unlikely messiah named Roaring Kitty who decides to sink his life savings into shares of the video game seller GameStop and then praise the stock to his fans.

Ink stains of suppression

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk. – Drew Barrymore, American actress, producer, talk show host and author. When I was about six years old, I distinctly remember university students frequently visiting our home. They were asked by my grandfather to teach my mother how to

A beautiful mind

Mathematics is the most beautiful and powerful creation of the human spirit – Stefan Banach, 1892-1945, Polish mathematician. I was recently doing KenKen, a Japanese math puzzle, on a plane when a fellow passenger asked me why I bothered. I replied that I did it for the beauty. Okay, I’ll

Romance knows no price

‘Love is like money. Hard to find easy to lose.’ – Scott Campbell, vice president of Goldman Sachs. ‘The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore.’ – Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), American writer. I