Nuggets of Thought

“If I had to live over again, I would live as I have lived.” — Michel de Montaigne

But man is a frivolous and incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the process of the game, not the end of it. — The…

In his letters to Lucilius, Seneca gives him the following advice: “Measure your life: it just does not have room for so much.”

I think the dependency on beliefs, the idea that a set of beliefs or a system of beliefs can somehow provide meaning to human life, is a…

In real life exposure is more important than knowledge; decision effects supersede logic.

What we know today as the Outcome Bias was clear to Michel de Montaigne five centuries ago — we are rarely in complete control over the…

Antifragility implies more to gain than to lose, equals more upside than downside, equals (favorable) asymmetry.

In Confessions of a Philosopher, an excitingly readable and thought-provoking introduction to philosophy written in a form of an…

Robert Greene, the author of The 48 Laws of Power states that the ultimate form of power is mastery.