I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader is no fool. So I use procrastination as a message fro… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about — and the reader is no fool.

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Never buy a product that the owner of the company that makes it doesn't use, or, in the case of, say, medication, wouldn't contingently use.

One useful trick, I discovered, is to avoid listening to the question of the interviewer, and answer with whatever I have been thinking about recently. Remarkably, neither the interviewers nor the public notices the absence of correlation between question and answer.