Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one’s profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one’s...
Scars signal skin in the game.
Robust is when you care more about the few who like your work than the multitude who dislike it (artists); fragile when you care more about the few who dislike your work than the multitude who like it...
Repeated punishment, while it crushes the hatred of a few, stirs the hatred of all … just as trees that have been trimmed throw out again countless branches. For revolutions feed on repression, growin...
Remember that you are a Black Swan.
Recognition can be quite a pump. Believe me, even those who genuinely claim that they do not believe in recognition, that they separate labor from the fruits of labor, actually get a serotonin kick fr...
Recall the confirmation fallacy: governments are great at telling you what they did, but not what they did not do. In fact, they engage in what could be labeled as phony philanthropy, the activity of...
Puede que no sea algo exigible desde el punto de vista ético, pero la política más eficaz y más libre de vergüenza es la transparencia máxima, la cual incluye la transparencia de intenciones.
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with o...
Perhaps the wise one is the one who knows that he cannot see things far away.
People feel deep anxiety finding out that someone they thought was stupid is actually more intelligent than they are.
People confuse science and scientists. Science is great, but individual scientists are dangerous. They are human; they are marred by the biases humans have. Perhaps even more. For most scientists are...
Our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the ide...
One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans. All you need is one single (and, I am told, quite ugly) black bir...
On alternative histories, a probabilistic view of the world, intellectual fraud, and the randomness wisdom of a Frenchman with steady bathing habits. How journalists are bred to not understand random...
Of course, it is not so easy to falsify, i.e., to state that something is wrong with full certainty. Imperfections in your testing method may yield a mistaken no. The doctor discovering cancer cells m...
Now for reasons that have to do with the increase of the artificial, the move away from ancestral and natural models, and the loss in robustness owing to complications in the design of everything, the...
Now I am punished by privilege and comfort—and I can’t resist comfort.
Noi, membrii varietății umane a primatelor, suntem însetați de reguli, deoarece trebuie să reducem dimensiunile problemelor astfel încât acestea să încapă în capul nostru. Sau, din păcate, așa încât s...
Nobody knew anything, but elite thinkers thought that they knew more than the rest because they were elite thinkers, and