You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

Maximum of an average is necessarily less volatile than the average maximum

Anything organic requires some dose of variability so it can adapt all the time, and fixing things is not a good idea.

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.