Laws vs Ethics
Laws come and go; ethics stay. Nassim Taleb From Skin in the Game...
Category: Maxims
Forecasting vs Speculation
Forecasting (in words) bears no relation to speculation (in deeds). Nassim Taleb Author of Skin in The Game...
Churchill on Negotiating
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” Winston Churchill...
Rationalization
Humans have an almost bottomless capacity to convince themselves that they are right about whatever serves their...
Tinkering
"The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact...
A Daw
“I am no wiser than a daw.’ No wiser than a daw.” Shakespeare(Henry VI Act II) From Lincoln's Last Trial by...
Notes
“Notes are a bother.” Abraham Lincoln As quoted in Lincoln's Last Trial by Dan Abrams Notes are a "bother" for...
Knowing You’re Wrong
"You will never fully convince someone that he is wrong; only reality can." Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game...
The Law
“Law is nothing else but the reason of wise men.” Abraham Lincoln Quoted in Lincoln's Last Trial by Dan Abrams A...
A Good Name
...But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor...
