“Two centuries ago people had an idealized opinion

of their own past, just as we now have an

idealized opinion of today’s past.”

Nassim Taleb is a writer and thinker. He grew up in Lebanon and grew rich in the USA. He is the author of among other books, The Black Swan. He recently created the concept of the Antifragile and wrote a book about it. He sees the world as it is and writes about it in a way that I can understand.