But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why someth… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.

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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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