Never take investment advice from someone who has to work for a living. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you need to listen to music while walking, don’t walk; and please don’t listen to music.

The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer was the soccer mom….Soccer moms try to eliminate the trial and error from children's lives and transform them into nerds working on preexisting (soccer-mom-compatible) maps of reality. They are good students, but nerds — that is, they are like computers except slower. Further, they are totally untrained to handle ambiguity….Provided we have the right type of rigor, we need randomness, mess, adventures, uncertainty, self-discovery, near-traumatic episodes, all those things that make life worth living.

Since its inception, academia has been grounded in the idea that knowledge of the chemical composition of ink will improve one's writing.