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"Two weekends in Philadelphia are not twice as pleasant as a single one- I've tried." Nassim Taleb Antifragile:...

"Playing video games or masturbating may feel engrossing or satisfying in the moment but, on their own, would not make...

"Complex systems are weakened, even killed, when deprived of stressors." Nassim Taleb Antifragile: Things That Gain...

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche As quoted in The Seven Laws of Magical...

"It is hard to find people knowledgeable and confident enough to like to extract the essence of things, instead of...

"There are two ways to live your life.  One is as if nothing is a miracle.  The other is as if everything is a...

"A larger than expected share of famines in the last century have occurred in economies with central...

"The calamity of the information age is that the toxicity of data increases much faster than its...

"What I learned on my own I still remember." Nasim Taleb The Bed of Procrustes Nassim Taleb is a writer and...

"A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation." Nasim Taleb The Bed of...