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.

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

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.

This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.