If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

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

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

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

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