Increasingly, data can only truly deliver via negativa–style knowledge — it can be effectively used to debunk, not confirm. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Stoicism, seen this way, becomes pure robustness — for the attainment of a state of immunity from one’s external circumstances, good or bad, and an absence of fragility to decisions made by fate, is robustness. Random events won’t affect us either way (we are too strong to lose, and not greedy to enjoy the upside), so we stay in the middle column of the Triad.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

it is a well-known trick that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.