You make a discovery but someone points out it was made before. If you are an academic (or a career researcher) you feel upset; if you are free you feel flattered.

Source: You make a discovery but someone points out it… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you need to learn “argue intelligently”, you don’t have a real argument; if you need to “promote”, you don’t have anything to sell; if you need to network you don’t have anything to offer; if you need to prepare for a lecture, you don’t have anything to lecture about; and if you need to learn how to “improve your style” you don’t have anything to write about. Truth is direct; it screams and doesn’t meander.
[Please note the difference between NEED TO and WANT TO before commenting. Some commentators here have made mistakes.]

via Facebook