[T]hey share the traits of the acute successful randomness fool who, in addition, operates in the most random of environments. ...[T]heir bosses and … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The very idea of exercise is to gain from antifragility to workout stressors — as we saw, all kinds of exercise are just exploitations of convexity effects.

"Had Prozac been available last century, Baudelaire's "spleen," Edgar Allan Poe's moods, the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the lamentations of so many other poets, everything with a soul would have been silenced*....
If large pharmaceutical companies were able to eliminate the seasons, they would probably do so — for profit, of course.

*This does not mean that Sylvia Plath should not have been medicated at all. The point is that pathologies should be medicated when there is risk of suicide, not mood swings."

Y'all don't treat women fair
She read about herself in the bible
Believing she the reason sin is here