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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"The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
"Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor."
"The problem with conventional education is that it tries to teach you what to think, not how to think."
"The good life is simple. Don't f*ck it up by making it complicated."
"Never trust a statistician who doesn't gamble."
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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