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2 May 2025
📊 Top 10 Most Liked Posts from @TalebWisdom – April 2025
A recap of your favorite Taleb quotes last month:
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1. "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it".
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"Real mathematicians understand completeness, real philosophers understand incompleteness, the rest don’t formally understand anything." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"NATIONALISM: there is an individual, then nation, little above. Causes Wars: outside lives don't exist. FRACTAL LOCALISM: individual ⊂‚ various tribes (family, friends...) ⊂‚ tribes ⊂‚ ... Humanity. NEVER exclusive: One (me) can ⊂‚ Greek & Lebanese tribes US Mediterraneism."
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"A businessperson cares abt his reputation as it facilitates business, not as an end. For people who aren’t free, reputation is the end." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #reputation
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"Don’t trust a man who needs an income—except if it is minimum wage." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"Happiness; we don’t know what it means, how to measure it, or how to reach it, but we know extremely well how to avoid unhappiness." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"Half of suckerhood is not realizing that what you don’t like might be loved by someone else (hence by you, later), and the reverse." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a “solution” and creates a problem." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"What they call “play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"Someone at dinner just asked me to define a "dictator". Someone who doesn’t buy weapons from your government." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #dictator
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"You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justi􀀬cation and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else’s narrative." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198481…
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"I find it inconsistent (and corrupt) to dislike big government while favoring big business—but (alas) not the reverse." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198481…
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"A mathematician starts with a problem and creates a solution; a consultant starts by offering a “solution” and creates a problem." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"The four most infuential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine—and nonperishable—work within institutions." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198481…
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"Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"Knowledge is subtractive, not additive—what we subtract (reduction by what does not work, what not to do), not what we add (what to do)." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198481…
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"For soldiers, we use the term “mercenary,” but we absolve employees of responsibility with “everybody needs to make a living.”" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"How often have you arrived one, three, or six hours late on a transatlantic 􀀸ight as opposed to one, three, or six hours early? This explains why deficits tend to be larger, rarely smaller, than planned." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment ." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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