When I went to finance, I discovered that those who *tawk* about money were the ones who didn't have it, couldn't make it, or wanted a lot more but c… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
" "When I went to finance, I discovered that those who *tawk* about money were the ones who didn't have it, couldn't make it, or wanted a lot more but couldn't get it. Same problem with IQ. Those who insist on measuring IQ are ... the most stupid.
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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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Almost everything in social life is produced by rare but consequential shocks and jumps; all the while almost everything studied about social life focuses on the “normal,” particularly with “bell curve” methods of inference that tell you close to nothing. Why? Because the bell curve ignores large deviations, cannot handle them, yet makes us confident that we have tamed uncertainty. Its nickname in this book is GIF, Great Intellectual Fraud.
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