Genius is the side effect of madness, rather than the reverse. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Resting is valuable only if you are resting *from* something.

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You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.

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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.

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