Alas, it has been hard for me to fit these ideas about fragility and antifragility within the current U.S. political discourse—that beastly two-fossil system. Most of the time, the Democratic side of...
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Later—unlike gardeners, who understand rather well that pruning trees strengthens them. Likewise peace—some kind of forced, constrained, non-natural peace—may be costly in lives: just
You are a lucky man; you presented in such a comprehensive way the effect of chance on society and the overestimation of cause and effect. You show how stupid we are to systematically try to explain s...
These traders lose money frequently, but in small amounts, and make money rarely, but in large amounts. I call them crisis hunters. I am happy to be one of them.
There are traps built into any kind of knowledge gained from observation.
Some can be more intelligent than others in a structured environment—in fact school has a selection bias as it favors those quicker in such an environment, and like anything competitive, at the expens...
Only the autodidacts are free.
Only the autodidacts are free. And not just in school matters—those who decommoditize, detouristify their lives.
Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.
Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event, and without realizing it, .
If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.
But have the integrity to deliver your because very sparingly; try to limit it to situations where the because is derived from experiments, not backward-looking history.
A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.
Life is about execution rather than purpose.
Più la risposta è non lineare, meno rilevante è la media e più importante è la stabilità intorno a questa media.
Be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so.
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
Yo observaba que personas muy inteligentes e informadas no tenían ventaja alguna sobre los taxistas en sus predicciones, pero había una diferencia crucial. Los taxistas no pensaban que comprendieran l...
There is an element of deceit associated with interventionism, accelerating in a professionalized society. It’s much easier to sell Look what I did for you than Look what I avoided for you. Of course...