The best researcher is the one who hates academia, the best politician the one who hates politics, best bureaucrat one who hates bureaucracy. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The best researcher is the one who hates academia, the best politician the one who hates politics, best bureaucrat one who hates bureaucracy.
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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People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels—people you don't want to resemble when you grow up.
Basically this category would include those who think that the cure for obesity is to inform people that they should be healthy.
The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.
