There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.