Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Education is bad for you."
Education is bad for you.
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"Some people are only funny when they try to be serious."
"If you want to be a philosopher, write books. If you want to be a journalist, write tweets. If you want to be a parasite, write academic papers."
"The world is more random than we think, and we are more fragile than we think."
"The only way to be truly antifragile is to have skin in the game."
"The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."
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.