If schools (colleges) want to resemble real life, they would only care about the subject in which the student has the highest grade and ignore the others, a total drag. In a convex world, the average is of *zero* significance -like an option – since only the upper bound counts. So push the upper bound further.

Same with authors- a high convexity environment. When I probe the readers (as I just did), I probe the upper bound, the most enthusiastic need to be made more enthusiastic; the others don’t exist.

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Friends, a new version of the Prologue. The idea is to present the entire idea in one block first, then get to the fun stuff like Fat Tony, etc. Please, friends, let me know if it is fun to read. Thanks.

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/prologue.pdf

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A good day for a so-so writer is when he manages to write 1000 words. For a fine writer, it is when he removes a 1000 words.

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