In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers on the other. But we have a choice.

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.