Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom

📊 Top 10 Most Liked Posts from @TalebWisdom – April 2025 A recap of your favorite Taleb quotes last month: 🧵👇 1. "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it".

"A prostitute who sells her body (temporarily) is vastly more honorable than someone who sells his opinion for promotion or job tenure." - @nntaleb

"The classical idea is to build mental, physical & moral fortitude to face the world #Antifragile Modern one is to change it technologically." - Nassim Taleb

"When you beat up someone physically, you get exercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself. Just as smooth surfaces, competitive sports, and specialized work fossilize mind and body, competitive academia fossilizes the soul."

"Educated in 1860 was educated Today educated is starting to be overeducated & brainwashed, just like overfed, overprotected, & overmedicated." - Nassim Taleb #education

"You can expect blowups and explosive errors in fields where there is a penalty for simplicity." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes." - @nntaleb

"Their idea of the sabbatical is to work six days and rest for one; my idea of the sabbatical is to work for (part of) a day and rest for six." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198…

"The idea of skin in the game is to remove the mimicry by filtering via judgment by reality. Otherwise you end up with actors & parrots." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #SkinIntheGame

"You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"It is much easier for a criminal to fake being an honest person than for an honest person to fake being a criminal. Likewise it is easier for a fat-tailed distribution to fake being thin tailed than for a thin-tailed distributions to fake being fat tailed." - @nntaleb

"Remember that just as surgeons don't look like surgeons strong men don't look like athletes in ancient Greek sculptures." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Populism: democratic participation by the uneducated population when conflicts w/that of the miseducated one. " - Nassim Taleb #populism

"Things always become obvious after the fact." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Much of the difference between what is heaven and what is hell is branding." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #marketing

"My motto has always been: Debate the audience, not the person. Don't even try to convince someone that he or she is wrong." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #wisdom

"Corollary to Moore’s Law: every ten years, collective wisdom degrades by half." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"Silence is only informational if you can speak skillfully." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Remember that you are a Black Swan." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Never show a risk number, even if it is right." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #risk

"If you find any reason why you and someone are friends, you are not friends." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes amazon.com/gp/product/198…