Thursday Wisdom: "If someone's insults' bother you; it is evidence that you respect him." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Thursday Wisdom: "If someone's insults' bother you; it is evidence that you respect him."
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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We are hunters; we are only truly alive in those moments when we improvise; no schedule, just small surprises and stimuli from the environment.
The Internet broke the private-public wall; impulsive and inelegant utterances that used to be kept private are now available for literal interpretation.
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Those who believe in the unconditional benefits of past experience should consider this pearl of wisdom allegedly voiced by a famous ship’s captain: But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic Captain Smith’s ship sank in 1912 in what became the most talked-about shipwreck in history.*
