Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

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.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.