After things got bad for him, they somehow recovered by some invisible hand, and he was led to believe that it was his intrinsic property to recover from hardships by running every time into a new opp...
After more than twenty years as a transactional trader and businessman in what I called the strange profession, I tried what one calls an academic career. And I have something to report—actually that...
Además, en los países donde la riqueza se obtiene a través de la manipulación o explotación del entorno político o económico, sea por la vía del patrocinio o por la de la imposición de regulaciones (r...
Actually my father kept hinting to me the problem of getting good grades himself: the person who was at the exact bottom of his class (and ironically, the father of a classmate at Wharton) turned out...
Academia has a tendency, when unchecked (from lack of skin in the game), to evolve into a ritualistic self-referential publishing game.
Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.
A word on the display of emotions. Almost no one can conceal his emotions. Behavioral scientists believe that one of the main reasons why people become leaders is not from what skills they seem to pos...
A very intelligent group of revolutionary fellows in the United Kingdom created a political movement called the Fabian Society, named after the Cunctator, based on opportunistically delaying the revol...
A theory is like medicine or government: often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving and, on occasion, lethal. It needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.
A random series will always present some detectable pattern. I
A lesson I learned from this ancient culture is the notion of megalopsychon (a term expressed in Aristotle’s ethics), a sense of grandeur that was superseded by the Christian value of humility. There...
A good book gets better on the second reading. A great book on the third. Any book not worth rereading isn’t worth reading.
A donkey equally famished and thirsty caught at an equal distance between food and water would unavoidably die of hunger or thirst. But he can be saved thanks to a random nudge one way or the other. T...
The mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.
Respect for the weak being, after intellectual courage, the second most attractive quality to this author),
A) The more nonlinear, the more the function of something divorces itself from the something. If traffic were linear, then there would be no difference in traffic time between the two following situat...
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...
¿No es extraño ver que un suceso se produce precisamente porque no se esperaba que fuera a ocurrir? ¿Qué tipo de defensa tenemos contra ello? Cualquier cosa que se nos ocurra (que Nueva York es un bla...
The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up is not the worst-case scenario for them, nor the end scenario at all. Making thei...
The fallacy is that what one may need to know in the real world does not necessarily match what one can perceive through intellect: it doesn’t mean that details are not relevant, only that those we te...