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Antifragile Medicine, Las Vegas, Real World Risk, Status, Beirut Madinati, Commons, Ethics | Facebook

Friends, this is technical but it maps the ideas of Antifragile to medicine in a formal way. : It is still a draft 5/22/16 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/medicine.pdf —————————————- In Las Vegas at a conference, I explained fragility as nonlinearity: mix a $2,000 bottle of wine with a $10 one. The 2 bottles will be worth less than […]

Once you make the distinction between money for independence and money for status…

Once you make the distinction between money for independence and money for status, the rest becomes easy. via: Facebook

What terrorizes rich people: spending all their lives accumulating money…

What terrorizes rich people: spending all their lives accumulating money, building an image of “rich”, tying their ego to their wealth, then … realizing that money no longer confers status. via What terrorizes rich people: spending… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.