When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.