An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.