{"id":8039,"date":"2013-06-14T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2013-06-01T08:18:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T15:18:50","slug":"talebian-wisdom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=8039","title":{"rendered":"Talebian Wisdom 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period of time doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nassim Taleb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bed-Procrustes-Philosophical-Practical-ebook\/dp\/B004C43F9S\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1370099400&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+bed+of+procrustes+philosophical+and+practical+aphorisms\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nassim Taleb is a writer and thinker.\u00a0 He grew up in Lebanon and grew rich in the USA.\u00a0 He is the author of among other books, <em>The Black Swan<\/em>.\u00a0 He recently created the concept of the Antifragile and wrote a book about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period of time doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.&#8221; Nassim Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms Nassim Taleb is a writer and thinker.\u00a0 He grew up in Lebanon and grew rich in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-25F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8040,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}