The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

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.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.