{"id":6321,"date":"2013-11-16T02:12:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T10:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6321"},"modified":"2013-11-16T02:12:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T10:12:51","slug":"you-can-recognize-most-people-at-the-sound-of-their-voices-but-very-very-few-at-their-vocabulary-and-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/you-can-recognize-most-people-at-the-sound-of-their-voices-but-very-very-few-at-their-vocabulary-and-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"You can recognize most people at the sound of their voices but very, very few at their vocabulary and sentences&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>You can recognize most people at the sound of their voices but very, very few at their vocabulary and sentences.<br \/>&#8211; We are biologically so idiosyncratic and differentiated: out of 7 billion it is rare to find two persons who are exactly alike. But when you listen to conversation, opinions, and speeches people become almost identical to some group or a consensus, as if they didn&#8217;t want to be themselves any more.<br \/>&#8211; This is even more striking when you read articles and books. It is so hard to find something *not* generic, something that is not a linear combination of other things. It is even worse with academic papers (most academic papers are even worse\u2026 commoditized&#8230; I stop here).<br \/>&#8211; So when you look at yourself in the mirror remember that what&#8217;s inside your cranium should be a step closer in differentiation to what&#8217;s outside of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151844453078375&amp;id=13012333374\">You can recognize most people at the sound of&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can recognize most people at the sound of their voices but very, very few at their vocabulary and sentences.&#8211; We are biologically so idiosyncratic and differentiated: out of 7 billion it is rare to find two persons who are exactly alike. But when you listen to conversation, opinions, and speeches people become almost identical [&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-6321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321","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=6321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6323,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6321\/revisions\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}