Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

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.