Let us find what risks we can measure and these are the risks we should be taking. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you want to accelerate someone’s death, give him a personal doctor. I don’t mean provide him with a bad doctor: just pay for him to choose his own. Any doctor will do. This may be the only possible way to murder someone while staying squarely within the law. We can see from the tonsillectomy story that access to data increases intervention, causing us to behave like the neurotic fellow.

I avoid reading nonmath recent books. But if I do, best heuristic: avoid books on the NYT list of "Notable Books"

It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan) in a hut or cave isolated from it.