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Monthly Archives: November 2013

You can recognize most people at the sound of their voices but very, very few at their vocabulary and sentences….

You can recognize most people at the sound of their voices but very, very few at their vocabulary and sentences.– We are biologically so idiosyncratic and differentiated: out of 7 billion it is rare to find two persons who are exactly alike. But when you listen to conversation, opinions, and speeches people become almost identical […]

The problem with the idea of “learning from one’s mistakes” is…

The problem with the idea of “learning from one’s mistakes” is that most of what people call mistakes aren’t mistakes. via The problem with the idea of “learning from… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them …

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than in what you are trying to hide. via People are much less interested in what you are… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Friends, let us build a list of historical cases of “scientistic sucker problems”…

Friends, let us build a list of historical cases of “scientistic sucker problems” (similar to, say, transfat, thalidomide) that satisfy the following:A – DENIAL OF COMPLEXITY: Something foreign to the human body or nature-as-a-complex-system was introduced (in the sense of not being part of the long term history of the process),B – Benefits (though small) […]

OFF-TOPIC(S). Antifragile is going into paperback in January (U.S.)

OFF-TOPIC(S). Antifragile is going into paperback in January (U.S.) . I looked at revising it. Other books felt very incomplete when reread. For Fooled by Randomness, I added >80 pages in 2003 and 2005. For the Black Swan, I added >100 pages. For The Bed of Procrustes, I would like to add 40 pages. For […]