Mathematics is principally a tool to meditate, rather than to compute. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Modernity’s double punishment is to make us both age prematurely and live longer.

Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

This confirmation problem pervades our modern life, since most conflicts have at their root the following mental bias: when Arabs and Israelis watch news reports they see different stories in the same succession of events. Likewise, Democrats and Republicans look at different parts of the same data and never converge to the same opinions. Once your mind is inhabited with a certain view of the world, you will tend to only consider instances proving you to be right. Paradoxically, the more information you have, the more justified you will feel in your views.