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• I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on.…
• Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or…
• Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities…
• ...maximize the serendipity around you.
• Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
• Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
• He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.
• Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.
• Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be…
• This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
• Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…
• But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

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