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About Nassim Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.
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Additional quotes by Nassim Taleb
Breaking a fast feels like the exact opposite of a hangover.
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler. The less you trust a ruler's reliability (in probability called the prior), the more information you are getting about the ruler and the less about the table.
The very idea of exercise is to gain from antifragility to workout stressors — as we saw, all kinds of exercise are just exploitations of convexity effects.