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Monthly Archives: May 2015

To have a stable social life, filter out those who get easily offended…

To have a stable social life, filter out those who get easily offended by offending them early on. —— (As usual some people are getting the aphorism wrong. It does not mean one should offend people, it means that if people will eventually end up being offended it is much better early than late. Kapish?) […]

Geniuses only do well what they do the best.

Geniuses only do well what they do the best. Source: Geniuses only do well what they do the best. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

When I was in business, colleagues and associates talked about arts and literature…

When I was in business, colleagues and associates talked about arts and literature; when I became an author all they talked about was money; in academia where I am now all they talk about is rank and power. — Business (as a barbell with plenty free time on the side) has been the purest way […]

Named Conflicts, GINI

https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/594983974104993792 https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/594873774916308992

Mechanisms that are First-In/First-Out (FIFO)…

 Mechanisms that are First-In/First-Out (FIFO) (path independent) do not like variability and volatility (i.e., Jensen’s Inequality/Antifragility) as much as ones that are Last-In/First-Out (LIFO) (hence path dependent). Take diabetes. We are discovering that diabetes is not (as we thought) the result of being overweight, rather the effect of absence of variation, not losing weight, not […]