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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 11
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Modernity widened the distance between the sensational and the relevant.
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Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or incentives for skill.
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If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better.
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