The only article Lady Fortuna has no control over is your behavior. Good luck. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

On this Twitter account, I will be sharing Nassim Taleb's wisdom from his books, interviews, and tweets. Follow if you like the wise flaneur from Northern Phoenicia.

It is much more immoral to claim virtue without fully living with its direct consequences.

Until recent history, the central state represented about 5 percent of the economy.

...and further, governments were sufficiently distracted by war to leave economic affairs to businessmen.

The contagious creation of nation-states in the late nineteenth century led to what we saw with the two world wars and their sequels.