No, no, never send interim reports. Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must either then obey, or spend valuable time and energy evading, which you could be using to solve the problem.

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.

And what goes on in the head of a walking dead man? What personal failure could he possibly fear more than death itself?

You are what you do.

Great problems call for many small solutions.

In spite of intense efforts, the moment has drawn near when this front, already so heavily strained, will break. I consider it my duty to bring these conclusio…

Never tell everything at once.