{"id":5352,"date":"2012-12-23T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2012-12-23T18:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T02:12:41","slug":"repetitive-soul-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/repetitive-soul-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"REPETITIVE SOUL INJURY"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>REPETITIVE SOUL INJURY. If you feel more comfortable looking at trees outside the window in spite of their &#8220;mess&#8221; than at the well-organized smooth and regular structures inside the room, then you are psychologically convex to some types of variations straight from Jensen&#8217;s Inequality, the fractal ones &#8211;hence antifragile. And we can generalize to the difference between &#8220;organized&#8221; textbook-like lectures and rich conversation and fractal writing. Anything that bores you belongs to a class of linear, information-poor, reduced information &#8230;Did it ever hit you that natural settings are never ugly? Paradoxically we seem to rest better under some type of natural &#8220;mess&#8221;. My eye gets more solace looking at the &#8220;messy&#8221; Christmas tree rather than the smooth wall next to it.<br \/>We can generalize to life; just as we get repetitive stress injuries doing well-organized movements, our soul gets repetitive stress injury when deprived of fractal depth.<\/p>\n<p>PS- Consider book that have survived, from the &#8220;messy&#8221; bible to Montaigne&#8217;s essays: depth has these non-businessbook-like attributes. Which is why when I was told about Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan &#8220;your books are fun to read BUT disorganized&#8221; I understood fun to read BECAUSE disorganized or fractally organized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10151229482478375&amp;set=a.10150109720973375.279515.13012333374&amp;type=1\">Timeline Photos | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REPETITIVE SOUL INJURY. If you feel more comfortable looking at trees outside the window in spite of their &#8220;mess&#8221; than at the well-organized smooth and regular structures inside the room, then you are psychologically convex to some types of variations straight from Jensen&#8217;s Inequality, the fractal ones &#8211;hence antifragile. And we can generalize to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}