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by nemo44x 835 days ago
Well yeah, there is that.

I love Taleb's writing (Black Swan was an important book) and observations (Power law distributions are the world globalization trends towards) but truth be told he does come off as a bit of an ass. I mean, he really just had the key observation and then somehow wrote a few thousand pages around it and more or less got lucky with a trade once.
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pdimitar 834 days ago
> but truth be told he does come off as a bit of an ass.

Being able to look past that is what constitutes one of the meanings of the expression "going out of your comfort zone" which is basically how you learn new things.

Like your sibling commenter, I distill wisdom and experience any chance I get. If I find myself being irritated by somebody, my first reaction is to ask myself why. If the reason is emotional I almost always dismiss it.

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angiosperm 835 days ago
I take wisdom where I can find it, and leave the rest.

I wouldn't want as much attention on my flaws as his get.

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nemo44x 835 days ago
> I take wisdom where I can find it, and leave the rest.

Good philosophy.

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