you cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground.… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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you cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game — having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences,

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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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