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.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

What kills me makes others stronger.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.