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View Plans“ ”In the complex world, the notion of “cause” itself is suspect; it is either nearly impossible to detect or not really defined — another reason to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things.
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
much of what other people know isn’t worth knowing.
you cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game — having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences,
Alexander said that it was preferable to have an army of sheep led by a lion than an army of lions led by a sheep.