Nassim Nicholas Taleb — "If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry."
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
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"The only way to be happy is to find a way to make your work play."
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"I like Mondays more than I like lazy Sundays. I live for this sh*t."
"Attention authors: if a reviewer writes an unfair review of your work, contact me, I can be very unfair in reviewing his review."
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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.