{"id":7768,"date":"2015-05-11T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T03:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=7768"},"modified":"2015-05-11T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T03:10:27","slug":"when-i-was-in-business-colleagues-and-associates-talked-about-arts-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/when-i-was-in-business-colleagues-and-associates-talked-about-arts-and-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"When I was in business, colleagues and associates talked about arts and literature&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I was in business, colleagues and associates talked about arts and literature; when I became an author all they talked about was money; in academia where I am now all they talk about is rank and power.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nBusiness (as a barbell with plenty free time on the side) has been the purest way to engage in intellectual life.<br \/>\nP.S. Just discoved Oscar Wilde has said the same thing (partically, about business and arts.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153008543398375&amp;id=13012333374\">When I was in business, colleagues and&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in business, colleagues and associates talked about arts and literature; when I became an author all they talked about was money; in academia where I am now all they talk about is rank and power. &#8212; Business (as a barbell with plenty free time on the side) has been the purest way [&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-7768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768","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=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7770,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions\/7770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}