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随机生存的智慧：黑天鹅语录 THESEUS, OR, LIVING THE PALEO LIFE
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The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.
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My only measure of success is how much time you have to kill.
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I wonder if a lion (or a cannibal) would pay a high premium for freerange humans.
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If you need to listen to music while walking, don’t walk; and please don’t listen to music.
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Men destroy each other during war; themselves during peacetime.
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Sports feminize men and masculinize women.
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Technology can degrade (and endanger) every aspect of a sucker’s life while convincing him that it is becoming more “efficient”.
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The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free.
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You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
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With terminal disease, nature lets you die with abbreviated suffering; medicine lets you suffer with prolonged dying.
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We are satisfied with natural (or old) objects like vistas or classical paintings but insatiable with technologies, amplifying small improvements in versions, obsessed about 2.0, caught in a mental treadmill.
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Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura.
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Their idea of the sabbatical is to work six days and rest for one; my idea of the sabbatical is to work for (part of) a day and rest for six.
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What they call “play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are.
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Most modern technologies are deferred punishment.
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We are hunters; we are only truly alive in those moments when we improvise; no schedule, just small surprises and stimuli from the environment.
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For everything, use boredom in place of a clock, as a biological wristwatch, though under constraints of politeness.
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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
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For a classicist, a competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
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Skills that transfer: street fights, off-path hiking, seduction, broad erudition. Skills that don’t: school, games, sports, laboratory—what’s reduced and organized.
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You exist in full if and only if your conversation (or writings) cannot be easily reconstructed with clips from other conversations.
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The English have random Mediterranean weather; but they go to Spain because their free hours aren’t free.
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For most, work and what comes with it have the eroding effect of chronic injury.
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Technology is at its best when it is invisible.
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