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 r… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You need a story to displace a story.

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

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.

"Intelligent" Ivy-league people (those exam-taking idiots, IYIs) are structurally selected for finding patterns, not doubting them.

All rumors about a public figure are to be deemed untrue until he threatens to sue.

Even the fathers of statistical science forgot that a random series is bound to exhibit some pattern... Pearson was among the first scholars interested in creating artificial random number generators, tables one could use as inputs for... simulations (precursors of our Monte Carlo simulator). ...[T]hey did not want these tables to exhibit... regularity. Yet real randomness does not look random! ...A single random run is bound to exhibit some pattern ...