"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who d…"

"You may not be able to change the world but can at least get some entertainment and make a living out of the epistemi…"

"It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our …"

"Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world…"

"We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible."

"Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful con…"

"It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear."

"Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. …"

"Lucky fools do not bear the slightest suspicion that they may be lucky fools - by definition, they do not know that t…"

"Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance."