France took Algeria, hoping for a country to eat cassoulet and instead France is now eating couscous. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The true hero in the Black Swan world is someone who prevents a calamity and, naturally, because the calamity did not take place, does not get recognition — or a bonus — for it. I will be taking the concept deeper in Book VII, on ethics, about the unfairness of a bonus system and how such unfairness is magnified by complexity.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.

This would have been a great Christmas present. We will wait for June.