Recall that the fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn’t care too much.
Recall that someone with only casual knowledge about the problems of randomness would believe that an animal is at the maximum fitness for the conditions of its time. This is not what evolution means;...
Primitive societies are largely free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dental cavities, economic theories, lounge music, and other modern ailments.
Pero hay otros problemas que surgen de nuestra ceguera ante el Cisne Negro: a) Nos centramos en segmentos preseleccionados de lo visto, y a partir de ahí generalizamos en lo no visto: el error de la c...
Per lo studioso e leader religioso arabo ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib (che non è un mio parente), mantenere le distanze da una persona ignorante equivale a stare in compagnia di un saggio.
Per il robusto un errore è informazione, per il debole un errore è solo un errore
People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word.
Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For instance, you study every day and learn something in proportion to your studies. If you do not feel that you are going anywhere, your emot...
Or, if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time (assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until...
One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of
One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip to the store caused the winning?
One may have a million ways to explain things, but the true explanation is unique, whether or not it is within our reach.
Now take a look at the cemetery. It is quite difficult to do so because people who fail do not seem to write memoirs, and, if they did, those business publishers I know would not even consider giving...
Never hire an academic unless his function is to partake of the rituals of writing papers or taking exams.
My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
More data—such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street—can make you miss the big truck.
Mine was the only job you could do if you thought of yourself as risk-hating, risk-aware, and highly ignorant.
Let us say that, in general, failure (and disconfirmation) are more informative than success and confirmation, which is why I claim that negative knowledge is just more robust.
Kun nainen huutaa, että tekosi oli anteeksiantamaton, hän on jo alkanut antaa anteeksi.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, citing him: It seemed, wrote Machiavelli, that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit...