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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Systems, bodies, and minds gain strength from volatility and stress; fragility comes from shielding, not from exposure.
mind-and-cognition
The Soviet-Harvard illusion: lecturing birds on flying and believing the lecture causes these wonderful skills—a causal illusion called epiphenomenon.
VLA-4049ED9E-RC-180Subtractive knowledge is convex. What is wrong is robust; what you don't know is fragile—make sure it cannot harm you if false.
VLA-4049ED9E-RC-282Traffic is highly nonlinear: small additions have no impact, then a single car causes a catastrophic delay—convexity effects in daily life.
VLA-4049ED9E-RC-252self-and-identity
Religious stories may have no value as narratives, but they may get you to do something convex and antifragile you otherwise would not do.
VLA-4049ED9E-RC-196We get sharper and fitter in response to the stress of constraint; biological mechanisms are activated by food deprivation.
VLA-4049ED9E-RC-345work-as-meaning
Some tie-wearers are very rich. 'Don't be fooled by money. These are just numbers. Being self-owned is different from being employed.'
VLA-4049ED9E-RC-381Illuminates
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