Automation makes otherwise pleasant activities turn into "work". - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is very difficult to argue with salaried people that the simple can be important and the important can be simple.

You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. The antifragility of the higher level may require the fragility and sacrifice of the lower one.