{"id":6359,"date":"2013-11-26T21:41:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T05:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2013-11-26T21:41:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T05:41:44","slug":"a-standard-mistake-is-to-do-something-to-avoid-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/a-standard-mistake-is-to-do-something-to-avoid-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"A standard mistake is to do something to avoid criticism&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>A standard mistake is to do something to avoid criticism (as opposed to doing something because it is *right*), and, what&#8217;s worse, show it. This seems trivial but smart people make the mistake all the time, not realizing the hormetic effect: critics will now have the stimulating challenge to find something else.<\/p>\n<p>If you are ever told &#8220;your critics will attack you for this&#8221;, you should 1) answer: fuck them, 2) do more of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151869613478375&amp;id=13012333374\">A standard mistake is to do something to avoid&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A standard mistake is to do something to avoid criticism (as opposed to doing something because it is *right*), and, what&#8217;s worse, show it. This seems trivial but smart people make the mistake all the time, not realizing the hormetic effect: critics will now have the stimulating challenge to find something else. If you are [&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-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","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=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}