against my (acquired) skepticism of anything published in the last 50 years (exceptions: Kazuo Ishiguro's novels, The Selfish Gene), I picked up Nassim N. Taleb's Antifragile.
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more data--such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street--can make you miss the big truck.
when nerds become restless at work about getting promoted to higher levels of management, they double down on their nerd skills to increase their output.
how could he lead so many victorious campaigns and cover such vast territories if the subreddit r/CampingGear had not come to existence yet?
in day-to-day meetings and coffee chats, no big deal, but when it comes to making investing or hedging decisions, beware.
in every man's life, however splendid or modest, there are episodes that mark one's journey as a reader or as a person. Reading Samuel Johnson's essays is both a personal and a reader milestone.
for what would so soon destroy all the order of society, and deform life with violence and ravage, as a permission to every one to judge his own cause...
the ambition of petty accomplishments, in which we believe we’re advancing, but a wiser perspective offers the opposite diagnosis.
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