The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.
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"Never eat anything that your great-grandmother would not recognize as food."
"The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich don't work for money—they make money work for them."
"The greatest invention of mankind is the ability to ignore things."
"The general public has a hard time distinguishing between the truth and a well-told story."
"dessert... in his opinion they're 'crap' and he will only eat Lebanese pastries."
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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