Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.