Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness."
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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"Academia is a graveyard of ideas."
"The greatest invention of mankind is the ability to ignore things."
"I like Mondays more than I like lazy Sundays. I live for this sh*t."
"Never trust a man who needs a subtitle for his job."
"A BS detection heuristic would be to use education in reverse: hire, conditional on an equal set of skills, the person with the least label-oriented education. In addition, people who didn't go to Har…"
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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