An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress.