A heuristic for happiness/contentment/good disposition: You are not upset to hear that someone you know has been owning bitcoin since 2011. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it. This is all the more worrisome when we engage in deadly conflicts: wars are fundamentally unpredictable (and we do not know it). Owing to this misunderstanding of the causal chains between policy and actions, we can easily trigger Black Swans thanks to aggressive ignorance-like a child playing with a chemistry kit.

The way to deal with racists is to NEVER use moral arguments (they are insensitive to them). Just prove to them that their "race"... was comparatively sub-par for a very, very, very long time. Just like the current condition of "inferior" races. That, they can't handle.

The only thing you can learn from a business school professor is how to become a business school professor.