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.

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

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