Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You …

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
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The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical … ▶
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, p.40, … ▶
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patent … ▶
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

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