Correction to below (one cannot edit): “a man *whose ideas* are desperately devoid of clarity”.

Friends, a summary wish to everyone here for 2014: the preservation of your most important attribute and the most significant and most threatened human asset, MENTAL CLARITY.

(Note 1: It looks like I will debate Didier Sornette in May in NYC: a man desperately devoid of clarity yet producing works under complicated equations that aim to “predict” rare events. Debates are wonderful to cut through the BS and get someone to produce his own inconsistencies in public, or beam light on his own straw man arguments, or show how his conclusions don’t follow from premises. We have fewer and fewer debates. This will be my first & I would love to debate a prominent economist LIVE in front of an audience… Nobody has accepted so far.)

via Friends, a summary wish to everyone here for… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.