Black Swan author's rules for living - Boing Boing

1. Seek out the smartest people who disagreed with me so I could try to understand their reasoning. 2. Know when not to have an opinion. 3. Develop, test, and systemize timeless and universal principles. 4. Balance risks in ways that keep the big upside while reducing the downside.

He defines a black swan as an outlier event that has a consequential impact and that humans seek to explain after the fact.