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

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Success is becoming in middle adulthood what you dreamed to be in late childhood.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal