It is a great compliment for an honest person to be mistaken for a crook by a crook. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It is a great compliment for an honest person to be mistaken for a crook by a crook.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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Consider a turkey that is fed every day. Every single feeding will firm up the bird’s belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of the human race “looking out for its best interests,” as a politician would say. On the afternoon of the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, something unexpected will happen to the turkey. It will incur a revision of belief.*
Bring the good news in trickles, the bad news in lumps.
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