{"id":8340,"date":"2013-10-11T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2013-09-04T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T00:25:24","slug":"talebian-wisdom-october-11-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=8340","title":{"rendered":"Talebian Wisdom October 11, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8341\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=8341\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg?fit=3648%2C2736&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3648,2736\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1375182686&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_9687\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8341\" title=\"IMG_9687\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg?resize=250%2C187&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_9687.jpg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">&#8220;The calamity of the information age is that the toxicity <\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">of data increases much faster than its benefits.&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nasim Taleb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets\/dp\/0812975219\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1375725110&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=fooled+by+randomness\"><em><strong>The Bed of Procrustes<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">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.\u00a0 His writing is highly recommended for open minded people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The calamity of the information age is that the toxicity of data increases much faster than its benefits.&#8221; Nasim Taleb The Bed of Procrustes 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, The Black Swan.\u00a0 He recently [&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-8340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","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=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8344,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}