All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

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.

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

Never ask a trader if he is profitable: you can easily see it in his gesture and gait.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.