When a young woman partners with an otherwise uninteresting rich man, she can sincerely believe that she is attracted to some very specific body part… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Start by being warm, pleasant, & generous w/every person you meet; but if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him; & if he messes w/you, remember to keep messing w/him long after he has forgotten about it". Silver Rule of Fat Tony in

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.