it is a well-known trick that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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it is a well-known trick that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.
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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The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations. Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren’t for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty, and an ethical life isn’t so when stripped of personal risks.
Success brings an asymmetry: you now have a lot more to lose than to gain. You are hence fragile.
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