To have a stable social life, filter out those who get easily offended by offending them early on.
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(As usual some people are getting the aphorism wrong. It does not mean one should offend people, it means that if people will eventually end up being offended it is much better early than late. Kapish?)
Source: To have a stable social life, filter out those… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Geniuses only do well what they do the best.
Source: Geniuses only do well what they do the best. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When I was in business, colleagues and associates talked about arts and literature; when I became an author all they talked about was money; in academia where I am now all they talk about is rank and power.
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Business (as a barbell with plenty free time on the side) has been the purest way to engage in intellectual life.
P.S. Just discoved Oscar Wilde has said the same thing (partically, about business and arts.)
Source: When I was in business, colleagues and… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/594983974104993792
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/594873774916308992
Mechanisms that are First-In/First-Out (FIFO) (path independent) do not like variability and volatility (i.e., Jensen’s Inequality/Antifragility) as much as ones that are Last-In/First-Out (LIFO) (hence path dependent).
Take diabetes. We are discovering that diabetes is not (as we thought) the result of being overweight, rather the effect of absence of variation, not losing weight, not having periods of starvation (that among other things, clean up the fat deposit in the pancreas that is LIFO). So someone overweight who loses weight can be much better-off than the same person a bit thinner at stable weight.
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There is plenty of research in diabetes hinting at this from many sides but nobody tried to put a systematic mathematical apparatus on it. Though the math is not trivial (because of path dependence), I was able to play with it with Monte Carlo analyses.
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Note that the Russians have known that for over a century.http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal.htm
See also (easier read)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…/I-reversed-diabetes-just-11-da…Reversing Type 2 Diabetes – Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre – Newcastle University
Our work has shown that type 2 diabetes is not inevitably progressive and life-long. We have demonstrated that in people who have had type 2 diabetes for 4 years or less, major weight loss returns insulin secretion to normal.
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