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“ . . . the world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops, causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book because other people bought it), thus generating snowballs and arbitrary and unpredictable planet-wide winner-take-all effects. ”

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Reality is far more vicious than Russian roulette. First, it delivers the fatal bullet rather infrequently, like a revolver that would have hundreds, even thousands of chambers instead of six. After a few dozen tries, one forgets about the existence of a bullet, under a numbing false sense of security. Second, unlike a well-defined precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality. One is capable of unwittingly playing Russian roulette - and calling it by some alternative “low risk” game.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb