A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a solution and creates a problem.
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.
A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says f*** you to fate.
. . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowba...
Whenever I hear work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).
I’ve had a hard time conveying to intellectuals the intellectual superiority of practice.)
Independence is person-specific: I have always been taken aback at the high number of people in whom an astonishingly high income led to additional sycophancy as they became more dependent on their cl...
Мы превозносим тех, чьи имена попали на страницы учебников истории, — за счет тех, чьи достижения прошли мимо историков. Мы,
¿Significa esto que todos deberíamos convertirnos en jugadores durante una temporada, aprovechar la amabilidad que la dama de la fortuna muestra con los que empiezan, y luego parar? La respuesta es no...
Your happiness depends far more on the number of instances of positive feelings, what psychologists call positive affect, than on their intensity when they hit. In
What Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.
We know a lot more what is wrong than what is right,
Via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by additionfn1).
The iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged—no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy,...
That if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.
Members of the Athenian assemblies were chosen by lot, a method meant to protect the system from degeneracy. Luckily, this effect has been investigated with modern political systems. In a computer sim...
Loss of bone density and degradation of the health of the bones also causes aging, diabetes, and, for males, loss of fertility and sexual function. We just cannot isolate any causal relationship in a...
It took me a lifetime to figure out the second point: implementation does not necessarily proceed from invention. It, too, requires luck and circumstances.
In Arabic it is called Shhm—best translated as nonsmall. If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don’t take risks, there is nothing...
Illusion of local causal chains—that is, confusing catalysts for causes and assuming that one can know which catalyst will produce which effect.