Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Never trust a man who needs a subtitle for his job."
Never trust a man who needs a subtitle for his job.
Never trust a man who needs a subtitle for his job.
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"Avoid people who are always right."
"The more you try to predict the future, the more you are fooled by randomness."
"The problem with democracy is that it's based on the idea that everyone's opinion is equally valid."
"The only way to be truly free is to be financially independent."
"The only way to be happy is to find a way to make your work play."
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.
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