No, businessmen as risk takers are not subjected to the judgment of other businessmen, only to that of their personal accountant.
My lesson from Soros is to start every meeting at my boutique by convincing everyone that we are a bunch of idiots who know nothing and are mistake-prone, but happen to be endowed with the rare privil...
My experience is that money and transactions purify relations; ideas and abstract matters like recognition and credit warp them, creating an atmosphere of perpetual rivalry.
My dear Socrates … you know why they are putting you to death? It is because you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions. You may be occasionally right. But you...
My being here is a consequential low-probability occurrence, and I tend to forget it.
Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort—a disease of civilization: make life longer and longer, while people are more and more sick.
Mother Nature has given us some defense mechanisms: as in Aesop’s fable, one of these is our ability to consider that the grapes we cannot (or did not) reach are sour. But an aggressively stoic prior...
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope to, some day, find something to say.
Most of the tension in life will take place when the one who reduces and fragilizes (say the policy maker) invokes rationality.
Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
Metric-lowering drugs are particularly vicious because of a legal complexity. The doctor has the incentive to prescribe it because should the patient have a heart attack, he would be sued for negligen...
La mente humana padece tres trastornos cuando entra en contacto con la historia, lo que yo llamo el terceto de la opacidad. Son los siguientes: a) la ilusión de comprender, o cómo todos pensamos que s...
La forma de evitar los males de la falacia narrativa es favorecer la experimentación sobre la narración, la experiencia sobre la historia y el conocimiento clínico sobre las teorías. Es evidente que u...
It would be preferable if we were better at understanding cancer or the (highly nonlinear) weather than the origin of the universe. How
It was confidently believed that the scientific successes of the industrial revolution could be carried through into the social sciences, particularly with such movements as Marxism. Pseudoscience cam...
It struck me, a belief that has never left me since, that we are just a great machine for looking backward, and that humans are great at self-delusion.
It is generally accepted that harm from doctors—not including risks from hospital germs—accounts for more deaths than any single cancer.
It is as if the mission of modernity was to squeeze every drop of variability and randomness out of life— with the ironic result of making the world a lot more unpredictable, as if the goddesses of ch...
Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books.
In their intense meditation the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them and they listen reverently while in the street outside the people hear nothing at all.