One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, “the P… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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One general, Fabius Maximus was nicknamed Cunctator, “the Procrastinator.” He drove Hannibal, who had an obvious military superiority, crazy by avoiding and delaying engagement.

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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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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

Complex systems are full of interdependencies—hard to detect—and nonlinear responses.

If we've been eating animals for > 300 million years & some "study" says it's "unhealthy", odds study is wrong/misspecified.

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