"The risk managers’ job feels strange: As we said, the generator of reality is not observable." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness)

"And, while every other organism is a factory for converting resources of a fixed type into more such organisms, human bodies (including their brains) are factories for transforming anything into anything that the laws of nature allow. They are ‘universal constructors’" (David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity)

Happy Father’s Day! If you have a dad, be grateful. If you are a dad, be a good one. Don’t take either for granted. "No father, no mother. I was three years old when I entered the Los Angeles County foster care system." (Rob Henderson, Troubled)

"Because you do get institutionalized. When you take away a man’s freedom and teach him to live in a cell, he seems to lose his ability to think in dimensions. He’s like that jackrabbit I mentioned, frozen in the oncoming lights of the truck that is bound to kill it." (Stephen King , Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption)

If you’ve ever wondered if our money is debased, look no further than an IPO for a company valued at $1.75 trillion with annual revenues of $0.0187 trillion (and negative earnings).

Reviewing Readwise notes while waiting for a 05:00 flight… "The fact that we had neither nicotine nor caffeine also contributed to the state of apathy and irritability." (Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning)