Quotes About Adaptation

Bricolage is a form of trial and error close to tweaking, trying to make do with what you've got by recycling pieces that would be otherwise wasted.

There is no evolution without skin in the game.

When you consider beliefs in evolutionary terms, do not look at how they compete with each other, but consider the survival of the populations that have them.

I am convinced of that after spending almost all my adult and professional years in a fierce fight between my brain (not Fooled by Randomness) and my emotions (completely Fooled by Randomness) in which the only success I've had is in going around my emotions rather than rationalizing them.

Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.

Rationality does not depend on explicit verbalistic explanatory factors; it is only what aids survival, what avoids ruin.

time is equivalent to disorder, and resistance to the ravages of time, that is, what we gloriously call survival, is the ability to handle disorder.

follows: to understand the future to the point of being able to predict it, you need to incorporate elements from this future itself. If

Ricordate questa massima: non sto dicendo che le tecnologie non invecchiano, ma solo che le tecnologie che tendevano a invecchiare sono già morte.

taking the other side of fragility makes you antifragile.)

Lindy" is what ages in reverse, i.e., its life expectancy lengthens with time

But the technology is only trivial retrospectively—not prospectively.

Procrastination turned out to be a way to let events take their course and give the activists the chance to change their minds before committing to irreversible policies.

they are now totally untrained to handle ambiguity.

and, although it was a less ambitious version than initially envisioned

Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom

all we need is the ability to accept that what we have on our hands is better than what we had before

Aside from the misperception of one's performance, there is a social treadmill effect: You get rich, move to rich neighborhoods, then become poor again. To that add the psychological treadmill effect; you get used to wealth and revert to a set point of satisfaction. This problem of some people never really getting to feel satisfied by wealth (beyond a given point) has been the subject of technical discussions on happiness.

the time difference between formal discovery and first implementation

Even trial and error are a form of barbell.

we should first make things more robust to defects and forecast errors, or even exploit these errors, making lemonade out of the lemons.

Lo único que digo aquí es que no debemos estar ciegos a la antifragilidad natural de los sistemas ni a su capacidad para cuidarse solos, y que debemos reprimir la tendencia a dañarlos y fragilizarlos negándoles la ocasión de hacerlo.

many people become long-term investors after they lose money, postponing

as to what to do in the event of losses.