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

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

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.

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

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.