Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Talebis a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionScientist
CountryLebanon
failing late ifs
If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
ifs-and narrative dictatorship
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.
enough feels ifs
If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.
ifs-and taste rich
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
real ifs-and pursuit
You have a real life if and only if you do not compete with anyone in any of your pursuits.
hate hate-me ifs
If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
fraud ifs
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
serendipity luck
...maximize the serendipity around you.
weakness
It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness.
delay large members united
In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
happiness humanity replace trade
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
children
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.