I wonder if anyone ever measured the time it takes, at a party, before a mildly successful stranger who went to Harvard makes others aware of it.
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"If you want to be a philosopher, write aphorisms. If you want to be a professor, write books."
"Never trust a wage slave."
"I want to live happily in a world I don't understand."
"Never eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize as food."
"Unlike dilettantes, career professionals are to knowledge what prostitutes are to love."
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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