Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Further, being fooled by randomness is that in most circumstances fraught with a high degree of randomness, one cannot really tell if a successful person has skills, or if a person with skills will succeed — but we can pretty much predict the negative, that a person totally devoid of skills will eventually fail.

The calamity of the information age is that the toxicity of data increases much faster than its benefits.

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