A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither