I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

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

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.