The next time you experience a blackout, take some... -Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Scientist
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parent...
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money....
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My Go...
I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled....
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York...
All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options....
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!...
We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like....
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With soc...
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness i...

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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing p...
Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in b...
Socialism and Communism are extremely attractive to a superficial observer. It is not until you get into the details, or actually experience it, that ...
The only way young players learn how to get better is by playing or get the experience is by playing and getting out there and doing it....
Immediately after the Floyd experience, I became a pop record producer....
The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy....
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later....
Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our r...
The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet mor...
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