Seth Goings

“When things go our way we reject the lack of certainty.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.”
― Edwin H. Friedman, A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

“that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder