People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither

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

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.