In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion française, th… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion française, the historian Jean Nicolas shows how the culture of rioting was extremely sophisticated — historically, it counts as the true French national sport.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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You need a story to displace a story. Metaphors and stories are far more potent (alas) than ideas; they are also easier to remember and more fun to read. If I have to go after what I call the narrative disciplines, my best tool is a narrative.

Study something old but not visibly useful (classics), something modern and useful (accounting, coding), never something new and not visibly useful.

We are social animals; hell is other people.

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