This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is something common to modern "liberal" and Sunni-Salafi education: They teach students answers rather than how to ask questions.

The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations. Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren’t for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn’t so when stripped of personal risks.

Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.