Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

My point taken further is that True and False (hence what we call "belief") play a poor, secondary role in human decisions; it is the payoff from the True and the False that dominates-and it is almost always asymmetric, with one consequence much bigger than the other, i.e., harboring positive and negative asymmetries (fragile or antifragile). Let me explain.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.