Rationalism crashes in the tails.

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

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

I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.