The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

Don't read newspapers for the news (just for the gossip and, of course, profiles of authors). The best filter to know if the news matters is if you hear it in cafes, restaurants... or (again) parties.

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

When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.

The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.