Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.

Probability and expectation are not the same. Its probability and probability times the pay off.