If you buy a book thinking it provides a shortcut for things in life, you are the gullible shortcut.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1447266828846354434?s=20
#Books #mjbBooks #Reading #mjbReading #Quote #mjbQuote #Taleb #mjbTaleb .
Once I learnt new languages, I realised why people speak “broken” or “wrong” English.
It’s not wrong and makes perfect sense in the way they pronounce their words or construct their sentences or work with their language.
I do the same with Hindi and Marathi and French as I learn and use them.
Teaches me there is nothing superior or inferior about any language. Just what the tribe accepts and loves and creates and mutates and has fun with.
Like Taleb says,
Words and languages were created by farmers, hunters, traders, prostitutes, carpenters, dancers, squid ink experts, cardiologists, post office clerks, & home builders.
Not by linguists, scribes, bureaucrats, librarians, grammarians, & college professors.
Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction, and is magnified by attempts to satisfy it. Books have a secret mission and ability to multiply, as everyone who has wall-to-wall bookshelves knows well.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb https://twitter.com/TalebWisdom/status/1393588887138803717
#Quote #mjbQuote #Life #mjbTaleb #Taleb #mjbAntifragile #Antifragile .
“"Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction, and is magnified by attempts to satisfy itbooks have a secret mission and ability to multiply, as everyone who has wall-to-wall bookshelves knows well." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile https://t.co/W0pKiNJk2v”
You are free in inverse proportion to the number of people to whom you can’t say “fuck you”
Rituals are the music of life.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The principle of intervention, like that of healers, is first do no harm (primum non nocere); even more, we will argue, those who don’t take risks should never be involved in making decisions. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://twitter.com/TalebWisdom/status/1351421091655376897
See what they do. Not what they say.
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jason
