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His idea is that if we were to optimize at every step in life, then it would cost us an infinite amount of time and energy.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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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