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

If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.