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

It takes considerable effort to see facts (and remember them) while withholding judgment and resisting explanations.

Linear relationships are truly the exception; we only focus on them in classrooms and textbooks because they are easier to understand.

ATTENTION SALARY PEOPLE: Next Friday when your guaranteed monthly paycheck is deposited, take a moment of gratitude for the entrepreneurs who took the risks so you get this risk-free income. Shaming an risk-taker for losing money is like shaming a soldier for losing a limb.