Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Be polite, but ignore comments, praise, and criticism from people you wouldn't h…"
Be polite, but ignore comments, praise, and criticism from people you wouldn't hire.
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"Never ask a barber if you need a haircut."
"People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than in what you are trying to hide."
"Attention authors: if a reviewer writes an unfair review of your work, contact me, I can be very unfair in reviewing his review."
"The only thing worse than a fool is a smart fool."
"If you want to annoy a academic, tell him that his work is 'interesting.'"
About Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960)
Lebanese-American probabilist and The Black Swan (2007) author whose work on tail risk and antifragility reshaped finance and policy thinking. Closely associated with Benoit Mandelbrot (fractal mathematician, Taleb's mentor figure). For an intellectual contrast, see Steven Pinker, Harvard psychologist and The Better Angels of Our Nature author — Taleb has spent the 2010s publicly attacking Pinker's data-driven 'things are getting better' optimism as naive Gaussian thinking under fat-tailed reality — the loudest public statistics argument of the decade.