Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb
Flaneur: probability (philosophy), probability (mathematics), probability (real life),Phoenician wine, deadlifts & dead languages. Greco-Levantine.Canaan. #RWRI
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https://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Consequences-Fat-Tails-Preasymptotics/dp/B0CD8X5YC5/ref=sr_1_1?ke 28-09-2011 02:19:07
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That's #SkinInTheGame. Free people can be culturally & emotionally cosmopolitan but if you represent one polity you are no longer free w/your allegiances and must have zero vested interests outside. Nor can you, like Secretary Antony Blinken invoke your origins when conducting US business.
"Probability is the intersection of the most rigorous mathematics and the messiest of life." -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument for the personal essay. This is also the foundation of my ethos for all the essays I write on Fee Sheet. I also try to write with my "entire soul and experience". You can find those essays here: feesheet.substack.com/t/essays