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

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

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

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.