The only people who think that real world experience doesn't matters are those who never had real world experience. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is much easier to sell “Look what I did for you” than “Look what I avoided for you.

My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism

But promoting philosophical skepticism is not quite the mission of this book. If awareness of the Black Swan problem can lead us into withdrawal and extreme skepticism, I take here the exact opposite direction. I am interested in deeds and true empiricism. So, this book was not written by a Sufi mystic, or even by a skeptic in the ancient or medieval sense, or even (we will see) in a philosophical sense, but by a practitioner whose principal aim is not to be a sucker in things that matter, period.