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.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Luck is the grand equalizer.