Daily Stoic 🗿Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mix Mistress Alice💄"Few assets in financial history have been more fragile than bitcoin. The customary standard argument is that ‘bitcoin has its flaws but we are getting a great technology; we will do wonders with the blockchain’. No, there is no evidence that we are getting a great technology – unless ‘great technology’ doesn’t mean ‘useful’. And at the time of writing – in spite of all the fanfare – we have done still close to nothing with the blockchain. So we close with a Damascus joke. One vendor was selling the exact same variety of cucumbers at two different prices. ‘Why is this one twice the price?’, the merchant was asked. ‘They came on higher quality mules’ was the answer. We only judge a technology by how it solves problems, not by what technological attributes it has.—Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility >
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/BTC-QF.pdf
#PDF #NassimNicholasTaleb #prices #CryptoCurrencies #technology #blockchain #bitcoin #value #finance #fragility
cob“Mieux vaut avoir la conscience de l’ignorance que la certitude du savoir”
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#Livre #Mastolivre #NassimNicholasTaleb #savoir #incertitude #ignorance
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: “Mieux vaut avoir la conscience de l’ignorance que la certitude du savoir”
Ancien trader star de Wall Street ayant grandi dans un Liban en guerre et admirateur de Montaigne ou de Sextus Empiricus… Nassim Nicholas Taleb est un drôle d’oiseau. C’est d’ailleurs grâce à un volatile devenu concept, le « cygne noir », qu’il a donné les moyens de penser les crises financières de 2001 et de 2008. Dans un monde de plus en plus incertain, cet iconoclaste invite à « jouer sa peau » et à refonder la morale à l’épreuve du risque.
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John CarmichaelA Day to Remember
“I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Yesterday was surely a day to remember. Yes, there was that assassination attempt on a Presidential candidate (horrific, not shocking given the divisive climate), but honestly I didn't even know about that until hours later. World-changin
https://alexandersmap.com/2024/07/14/a-day-to-remember/
#Culture #History #Lifestyle #NassimNicholasTaleb
A Day to Remember - Alexandersmap
“I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder Yesterday was surely a day to remember. Yes, there was that assassination attempt on a Presidential candidate (horrific, not shocking given the divisive climate), but honestly I didn’t even know about that until hours...
Daily Stoic 🗿Don’t aim to be perfect. Aim to be antifragile.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
SmokeInFogA Clash of Two Systems | Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"The war in Ukraine is a confrontation between two systems, one modern, legalistic, decentralized and multicephalous; the other archaic, nationalistic, centralized and monocephalous"
https://medium.com/incerto/a-clash-of-two-systems-47009e9715e2
#Russia #Ukraine #NassimNicholasTaleb #nation #ethnicity #nationstate #theWest #politcs #war #geopolitics
The Failover Game
“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.”― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
When the world is runnin' downYou make the best of what's still around— The Police, When The W
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/12/19/the-failover-game/
#Lifestyle #NassimNicholasTaleb #NewHampshire #Resiliency #ThePolice
The Failover Game - Alexandersmap
“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.”― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder When the world is runnin’ downYou make the best of what’s still around— The...