{"id":6195,"date":"2013-09-26T01:02:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T08:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6195"},"modified":"2013-09-26T01:02:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T08:02:39","slug":"gifts-and-inverse-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/gifts-and-inverse-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"GIFTS AND INVERSE GIFTS&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>GIFTS AND INVERSE GIFTS.Beyond all aspects linked to reciprocity, gifts increase the variations in one&#8217;s life; they bring a bit of bilateral optionality. You increase variations by borrowing someone else&#8217;s imagination, and get to use or read things you would have never done spontaneously. The same with enemies, and their often enriching inverse gifts.Give plenty of gifts, hope you receive a few!<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; Just realized the point as I received as a gift &#8220;The History of Western Philosophy&#8221; by Jean-Francois Revel incidentally the father of the buddhist monk Mattieu Picard. Revel was quite critical, a la Fat Tony, of these packaged ideas. On my own I would have never bought the book, particularly a book with such a bland title.<\/p>\n<p>Technical PS &#8211; Social scientists spin many many theories about gift-giving, not seeing the point. Thaler&#8217;s analysis of gifts and application of mental accounting is seriously flawed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151729577128375&amp;id=13012333374\">GIFTS AND INVERSE GIFTS. Beyond all&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIFTS AND INVERSE GIFTS.Beyond all aspects linked to reciprocity, gifts increase the variations in one&#8217;s life; they bring a bit of bilateral optionality. You increase variations by borrowing someone else&#8217;s imagination, and get to use or read things you would have never done spontaneously. The same with enemies, and their often enriching inverse gifts.Give plenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","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=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6197,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions\/6197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}