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.

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

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

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur