Avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.
La muerte a menudo es un buen paso profesional para el escritor).
C) If the function is convex (antifragile), then the average of the function of something is going to be higher than the function of the average of something. And the reverse when the function is conc...
B) The more volatile the something—the more uncertainty—the more the function divorces itself from the something. Let us consider the average number of cars again. The function (travel time) depends m...
What you learn from the intensity and the focus you had when under the influence of risk stays with you. You may lose the sharpness, but nobody can take away what you’ve learned. This is the principal...
We have evidence that collectively society doesn’t advance with organized education, rather the reverse: the level of (formal) education in a country is the result of wealth.
We are effectively not skilled at intuitively gauging the impact of the improbable, such
Veritas odium parit—truth brings hatred.
To avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)
Those who are very good at predicting the past will think of themselves as good at predicting the future,
The simpler and more obvious the discovery, the less equipped we are to figure it out by complicated methods.
The best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals.
Talking about radiation, few wonder why, after hundreds of million of years of having our skins exposed to sun rays, we suddenly need so much protection from them—is it that our exposure is more harmf...
Studying courage in textbooks doesn’t make you any more courageous than eating cow meat makes you bovine.
Preponderates,
Notion of alternative accounting: $ 10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $ 10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry.
Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact—and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings. Likewise, never ask a trader if he is profitable; y...
Major ramification of the ludic fallacy: how those whose job it is to make us aware of uncertainty fail us and divert us into bogus certainties through the back door.
Loss of mental function, taste for Frank Sinatra music, and similar degenerative effects.
La prova dell’assenza non significa assenza della prova,