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Don't disturb complicated syst...

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Scepticism is effortful and co...

Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Prediction, not narration, is ...

Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.

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Don't aim to be perfect! Aim t...

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

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There are secrets to our world...

There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.

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Learn to fail with pride - and...

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

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In science you need to underst...

In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

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Another definition of modernit...

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

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Muscles without strength, frie...

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

Nassim Taleb 338 quotes

Forecasting by bureaucrats ten...

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

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Ideas come and go, stories sta...

Ideas come and go, stories stay.

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Aesthetics, ethics, and many g...

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

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You need a story to displace a...

You need a story to displace a story.

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The narrative fallacy addresse...

The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship, upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.

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Karl Marx, a visionary, figure...

Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

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Probability is not about the o...

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

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Restaurants get you in with fo...

Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

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The more data we have, the mor...

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

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I always remind myself that wh...

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

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A mistake is not something to ...

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

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