The Internet broke the private-public wall; impulsive and inelegant utterances that used to be kept private are now available for literal interpretat… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Internet broke the private-public wall; impulsive and inelegant utterances that used to be kept private are now available for literal interpretation.
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 researcher is the one who hates academia, the best politician the one who hates politics, best bureaucrat one who hates bureaucracy.
General Principle: the solutions (on balance) need to be simpler than the problems.
I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.
