You need a story to displace a story.

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

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

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.