#nassim nicholas taleb

[entheognosis]

They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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[auntieblues]

“The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

original auntieblues

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[tle13]

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[fuoridalcloro]

“Noi esseri umani amiamo il tangibile, la conferma, il palpabile, il reale, il visibile, il concreto, il conosciuto, il visto, il vivido, il visuale, il sociale, il radicato, l’emotivamente carico, il saliente, lo stereotipato, il toccante, il teatrale, il romanzato, ciò che è di facciata, l’ufficiale, la verbosità che sembra erudizione (le stronzate), il pomposo economista gaussiano, le scemenze matematizzate, il fasto, l’Académie française, la Harvard Business School, il premio Nobel, i completi scuri con le camicie bianche e le cravatte di Ferragamo, il sermone toccante e il sensazionale. Ma soprattutto preferiamo il narrato. Purtroppo l’attuale versione della razza umana non comprende le questioni astratte perché le serve un contesto, e il caso e l’incertezza sono astrazioni. Rispettiamo ciò che è accaduto, ma ignoriamo ciò che sarebbe potuto accadere. In altre parole, per natura siamo poco profondi e superficiali, e non lo sappiamo.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Il cigno nero

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[papillon-de-mai]

" [...] Fiction is a certain packaging of the truth, or higher truths. Indeed I find that there is more truth in Proust, albeit it is officially fictional, than in the babbling analyses of the New York Times that give us the illusions of understanding what's going on. Newspapers have officially the right facts, but their interpretations are imaginary - and their choice of facts are arbitrary. They lie with right facts; a novelist says the truth with wrong facts."

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in conversation with Rolf Dobelli

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[qanishque]

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[the-stoic-goat]

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[somehow---here]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, ne “Il letto di Procuste”

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[apesoformythoughts]

You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile

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[wporigami]

En théorie, il n'y a pas de différence entre la théorie et la pratique. En pratique, il y en a une.

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[bookwormlily]

We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judged heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results - or those heroes who focus on process rather than results.

The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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[rulanreads]

The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb; The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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[mesutbahtiyarolacak]

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[papyrusandpaints]

Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Philosophy, 280 pages, Paperback, Penguin Random House India)

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[celiottjohnston]

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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[perception-1111]

#nassim nicholas taleb #adversity