Games were created to give nonheroes the illusion of winning. In real life, you don't know who really won or lost (except too late), but you can tell… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Markers of aging: 1- You stop learning something new 2- You talk too much about aging 3- The things you forget aren't the things you should be forgetting

Think of the following event: A collection of hieratic persons (from Harvard or some such place) lecture birds on how to fly. Imagine bald males in their sixties, dressed in black robes, officiating in a form of English that is full of jargon, with equations here and there for good measure. The bird flies. Wonderful confirmation! They rush to the department of ornithology to write books, articles, and reports stating that the bird has obeyed them, an impeccable causal inference. The Harvard Department of Ornithology is now indispensable for bird flying. It will get government research funds for its contribution.

That's it for April's Top 10 @TalebWisdom quotes (+ a bonus).

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