We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Switzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

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

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