The Black Swan Report

nntaleb: [Explanation: The biggest error since Socrates has been to believe that lack of clarity is the SOURCE of all our ills, not the result. ]

Twitter / nntaleb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:22:28 +0000

nntaleb: [Explanation: The biggest error since Socrates has been to believe that lack of clarity is the SOURCE of all our ills, not the result. ]

Twitter / nntaleb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:07:42 +0000

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nntaleb: Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.

Twitter / nntaleb — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:27:38 +0000

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nntaleb: What they call play (gym, travel) looks like work;what I call work (effortless daydreaming) looks like play.They lose freedom trying harder.

Twitter / nntaleb — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:13:17 +0000

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nntaleb: The differences between Goldman Sachs & the mafia: GS has a better legal-regulatory expertise; but the mafia understands public opinion.

Twitter / nntaleb — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:16:40 +0000

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nntaleb: Main difference between Goldman Sachs & the mafia: Goldman has a better legal-regulatory expertise; but the mafia understands public opinion

Twitter / nntaleb — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:47:00 +0000

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nntaleb: Common minds find similarities in stories (& situations), finer minds detect differences [Essay on the Universal & the Particular]

Twitter / nntaleb — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:45:20 +0000

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nntaleb: I wish to say some day about someone "Voilà un homme!" as Napoleon said upon meeting Goethe: mixture of passion & intellect (& elegance too)

Twitter / nntaleb — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:18:47 +0000

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nntaleb: E-books: like socializing on skype video, eating protein bars, being a gym-rat, vistng Vegas, or commuting in a box -truncated life, 2D.

Twitter / nntaleb — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:16:58 +0000

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nntaleb: Übermen tolerate others' small inconsistencies though not the large ones;losers tolerate others' large inconsistencies though not small ones

Twitter / nntaleb — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:33:18 +0000

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nntaleb: @fmxconnect [nerds in older days were used as scribes, hardly more; others, the unsophisticated, were fighters who valued courage]