Мы, люди, не просто крайне поверхностны (это еще можно было бы както исправить) — мы очень несправедливы.
Мы превозносим тех, чьи имена попали на страницы учебников истории, — за счет тех, чьи достижения прошли мимо историков. Мы,
Înfruntați-vă destinul. M-am obișnuit să rezist tentației de a alerga pentru a-mi respecta orarul. Poate fi un sfat neimportant, dar s-a dovedit valabil. Refuzând să alerg pentru a prinde trenuri, am...
You cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game—having...
What is made to fly will not do well trapped on the ground,
What Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.
We are not learning from a mere thousand days, but benefiting, thanks to evolution, from the learning of our ancestors—which found its way into our biology.
Via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by additionfn1).
The more interesting their conversation, the more cultured they are, the more they will be trapped into thinking that they are effective at what they are doing in real business (something psychologist...
The more cultured they are, the more they will be trapped into thinking that they are effective at what they are doing in real business (something psychologists call the halo effect, the mistake of th...
The cycles of risk taking in the economy as following a pattern: stability and absence of crises encourage risk taking, complacency, and lowered awareness of the possibility of problems. Then
The Swiss doctor Claparède had an amnesic patient completely crippled with her ailment. Her condition was so bad that he would have to reintroduce himself to her at a frequency of once per fifteen min...
That there is no evidence of the possibility of large events, i.e., Black Swans. You are likely to confuse that statement, however, particularly if you do not pay close attention, with the statement t...
That if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.
Teleological
Taking the half-invented into the invented is often the real breakthrough
System that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode,
Sobs (sanglots). Some days I enter poetic melancholic states, what the Portuguese call saudade or the Turks hüzün (from the Arabic word for sadness). Other days I am more aggressive, have more energy—...
Second fallacy lies in failing to take into account forecast degradation as the projected period lengthens. We
People overreact to low-probability outcomes when you discuss the event with them, when you make them aware of it. If