Studying the work and intellectual habits of a "genius" to learn from him is like studying the garb of a chef to emulate his cooking. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The antifragile loves randomness and uncertainty, which also means — crucially — a love of errors, a certain class of errors. Antifragility has a singular property of allowing us to deal with the unknown, to do things without understanding them — and do them well. Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

Psychologists have the illusion that I am writing this critique of IQ for them. No. Never argue theology w/a Salafi Sheikh. Psychologists are the losers in & out of campus. I am writing to expose the lack of rigor of these "metrics" to "intelligent" scientists & Fat Tonies.

If you detect a repressed smile on the salesperson's face, you paid too much for it.