Nassim Nicholas Taleb- 11 rules for life

The Silver Rule

Don’t do to others what you don’t want them to do to you

Never tell people what they should be doing, tell them what you’re doing ok

Have some skin in the game

Avoid things that bore you

Deadlift- I bear the risk of my advice

with my family I'm a communist with my close friends I'm a socialist uh you know at my state level politics I'm a Democrat at you know higher levels I'm a I'm a Republican and at the federal level I'm a Libertarian so basically the larger the group of people you have mass together who have different interests the less trust there is the more cheating there is the better the incentives have to be aligned the better the system has to work the more you go towards capitalism the smaller the group you're in by all means be a socialist

avoid completely

muscles without strength

friendship without trust

opinion without risk

change without Aesthetics

age without values

food without nourishment

power without fairness

facts without rigor

degrees without erudition

militarism without fortitude

progress without civilization

complication without depth

fluency without content

and most of all religion without tolerance

“If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.”

5. Don’t disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don’t understand their logic.

Also happens to be one of the top rules for working with legacy software systems. Don’t touch that code, even if it looks wrong

rules also here

from here

some Black swan coming soon