I am not here to live forever, as a sick animal. Recall that the antifragility of a system comes from the mortality of its components—and I am part of that larger population called humans. I am here t...
Hunger (or episodic energy deficit) strengthens the body and the immune system and helps rejuvenate brain cells, weaken cancer cells , and prevent diabetes.
Hormesis was well known by the ancients (and like the color blue was known but not expressed). But it was only in 1888 that it was first scientifically described (though still not given a name) by a G...
Hire the successful trader, conditional on a solid track record, whose details you can understand the least.
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
He provides the example of a philosopher who puzzles about the reality of time, but who nonetheless applies for a research grant to work on the philosophical problem of time during next year’s sabbati...
He is susceptible to conference room boredom and is incapable of talking to businessmen, particularly the run-of-the-mill variety. Nero is allergic to the vocabulary of business talk, not just on plai...
Have you noticed that while corporations sell you junk drinks, artisans sell you cheese and wine?
Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's spleen, Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenc...
Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and
Further, skin in the game creates diversity, not monoculture. Economic insecurity worsens the condition. Journalists are currently in the most insecure profession you can find: the majority live hand...
Frano Barović reading this chapter wrote to me: Machines: use it and lose it; organisms: use it or lose it. Also note that everything alive needs stressors, but not all machines need to be left alone—...
Finally, when young people who want to help mankind come to me asking, What should I do? I want to reduce poverty, save the world, and similar noble aspirations at the macro-level, my suggestion is: 1...
Finally, this explains why people who look too closely at randomness burn out, their emotions drained by the series of pangs they experience. Regardless of what people claim, a negative pang is not of...
Finally, I reckon that I am not immune to such an emotional defect. But I deal with it by having no access to information, except in rare circumstances. Again, I prefer to read poetry. If an event is...
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies, particularly those called observational, ones in which the researcher finds past patterns, and, thanks to the sheer amount of data,...
Contrary to conventional wisdom, our body of knowledge does not increase from a series of confirmatory observations, like
Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.