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Monthly Archives: July 2010

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs) wants you generic to the point of castration.

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs) wants you generic to the point of castration.

True love is the complete victory of the particular of the universal –anything else is vitiated by some element of opportunism.

True love is the complete victory of the particular of the universal –anything else is vitiated by some element of opportunism.

My book of aphorisms is coming out soon … So I am removing them from twitter. Twitter proved near-useless.

My book of aphorisms is coming out soon … So I am removing them from twitter. Twitter proved near-useless.

nntaleb: Half of life’s sucker problem can be summarized with the pig staring at pearls; the other half is with what you are staring at right now.

nntaleb: Half of life’s sucker problem can be summarized with the pig staring at pearls; the other half is with what you are staring at right now.

nntaleb: (I am about done … about 20 more aphorisms –2 days –& I will have what I need for my collection … thanks for the help.)

nntaleb: (I am about done … about 20 more aphorisms –2 days –& I will have what I need for my collection … thanks for the help.)