Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[T]here is a category of traders who have inverse rare events, for whom volatility is often the bearer of good news. Those traders lose money frequently, but in small amounts, and make money rarely, but in large amounts. ...crisis hunters. I am happy to be one of them.

It is generally accepted that harm from doctors not including risks from hospital germs accounts for more deaths than any single cancer.

It takes a huge investment in introspection to learn that the thirty or more hours spent “studying” the news last month neither had any predictive ability during your activities of that month nor did it impact your current knowledge of the world.