Wisdom isn’t about understanding things & people; it is knowing what they can do to you.
via Wisdom isn’t about understanding things &… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
“Never debate the ignorant in front of the uninformed: the crowd can’t tell who won the argument”. Syrian Proverb
(It makes so much sense but I wish I was aware of it before engaging Larry Summers.)
(This is the first aphorism here that is not mine.)
via “Never debate the ignorant in front of the… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
It used to take ten years to figure out if a book is a book or a counterfeit version between covers (journalism). It now takes about two years. Soon it will only take a year.
This is the main benefit of acceleration in the information age: the fragile breaks faster.
via It used to take ten years to figure out if a… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Probability Meditations. The latest entry is on the general idea of “Uncertainty Principle” or how can we rigorously think of real, unsurmountable trade-offs in real life.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIaW44R1dlbldiUHM/edit
via Probability Meditations. The latest entry is on… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
People like to drink red wine with red meat when the coloring of the former comes from tannin, the latter from myoglobin, white and nonred wine with “white” and nonred meat. Of course some “sommelier” will spin a vocabulary of “pairing” with some theory about the chemical correspondence. Drinking white wine with steak is considered bad taste, even tabou.
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Also, people like to eat fish by the waterfront with white wine, naturally even if the fish was caught far away and transported by trucks in the picture I was told the fish came from 100 km away, and even if they prefer cow meat to fish. As to red meat, they only eat it when there is no view of the water, though not necessarily with a view of grassy fields.