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An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

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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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I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared. — Jerry O'Connell
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