Supposedly, if you are uncompromising/intolerant with BS you lose friends. But you will also make friends, better friends. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The true hero in the Black Swan world is someone who prevents a calamity and, naturally, because the calamity did not take place, does not get recognition or a bonus for it.

Heuristics are simplified rules of thumb that make things simple and easy to implement. But their main advantage is that the user knows that they are not perfect, just expedient, and is therefore less fooled by their powers. They become dangerous when we forget that.

To illustrate that the "health benefits" of the Mediterranean diet aren't in the diet: people spend their lives climbing stairs and doing intermittent fasts.