For a free person, the optimal - most opportunistic - route between two points should never be the shortest one. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Those who have equal rights today are complaining much, much more than when they didn't have them.

Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time you remembered the event, and without realizing it,

I will use statistics and inductive methods to make aggressive bets, but I will not use them to manage my risks and exposure. ...[A]ll the surviving traders I know seem to have done the same. ...[T]hey make sure the cost of being wrong is limited ...they know ...which events would prove their conjecture wrong and allow for it ...They would then terminate their trade. This is called a stop loss ...I find it rarely practiced.