A brick could create a clear winner in a fight if instead of fighting pillows against blankets, you fought bricks against blankets.

A brick can be used to represent the zero probability of this book being any good.

A company could use bricks to measure their growth rate. How many bricks have angry investors thrown at you lately? If the answer is none, then your growth rate is probably pretty good… for the moment.

Instead of stocks investors should invest in blankets, that way they’ll at least have something to keep them warm after they’ve lost all their money when the company goes under.

A brick and a blanket together create a blick. That’s it. That’s all I got.