our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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our world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown, and the very improbable (improbable according our current knowledge) — and all the while we spend our time engaged in small talk, focusing on the known, and the repeated.

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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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