Key quotes from this article about Nassim Nicholas Taleb from The Spectator:

"Taleb is popular because he’s not selling anything; there’s no online course or paid subscription. What he offers is permission to look deep into the past for answers on how to live in the uncertain present."

"Taleb has an idea that should be basic, but that modern society finds difficult to accept: we don’t control everything. In fact, we control very little."

"The point is not to never make a mistake, per the Talebian “skin in the game” concept; it is to own up to your mistakes and admit to them publicly."

“He realizes that there is this discrepancy between how people are thinking and how they should think.”

This is just funny, but might be helpful social media time management advice: '“What people don’t realize is I have my Twitter fights prepared at least a week in advance,” he said. “And I use that downtime, traffic jam in an Uber or something like that, to start executing.”'

#thinking #history #finance #decisionmaking #stoicism #socialmedia #timemanagement

https://thespectator.com/topic/nassim-nicholas-taleb-anti-confidence-man-bitcoin-ftx/