Ali Sattari

“You can define a free person precisely as someone whose fate is not centrally or directly dependent on peer assessment.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Time-management hacks, life hacks, sleep hacks, work hacks. These all reflect an obsession with trying to squeeze more time out of the day, but rearranging your daily patterns to find more time for work isn’t the problem. Too much shit to do is the problem.”
― Jason Fried, It Doesn't Have to be Crazy at Work

“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything,”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“The only definition of rationality that I’ve found that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is the following: what is rational is that which allows for survival. Unlike modern theories by psychosophasters, it maps to the classical way of thinking. Anything that hinders one’s survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is, to me, irrational.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life