Quote of the Day

• The mind can be a wonderful tool for self-delusion—it was not designed to deal with complexity and nonlinear uncertainties.
• If you know, in the morning, what your day looks like with any precision, you are a little bit dead—the more precision, the more dead you are.
• The most painful moments are not those we spend with uninteresting people; rather, they are those spent with uninteresting people trying hard to be interesting.
• Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
• You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.
• The best way to spot a charlatan: someone (like a consultant or a stockbroker) who tells you what to do instead of what not to do.

- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Taleb