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

Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

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

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.

Make sure that you are in a situation where the constant mistakes are small and can be used for something.