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You want a @time person of the year? Here he is.

"If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

never in my 3 days of trading have I ever seen anything like this

"2) The danger of Nationalism is an absorption of values: lives of others don't count: Both H & W Bush counted only U.S. soldiers. For Salafis, lives of infidels don't count. For a localist everyone counts, but your obligation to family members is greater." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What makes me worry at night. nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NE…

Historical clan map of Medieval Scotland. Are you even a real family if you don't have a family crest? Source: buff.ly/3lx71b4

Doing business in Europe:

Me at 35: it must be hard being in your 80s. (At 37 I was diagnosed with ALS, a terminal disease) Me at 40: it must be amazing to be in your 80s. Good night moon.

... There can be no greater contrast to this than the false individualism which wants to dissolve all these smaller groups into atoms which have no cohesion other than the coercive rules imposed by the state" - Hayek #localism h/t Justin Amash

The world getting over the pandemic

Quarantining in my bedroom with covid when I saw my brother slip a note under my door…..

Today, this guy 4+ years into his fight against ALS did 5 bridges. So yeah, I’m gonna say it: Not today ALS. Not today. Happy Friday all.

When some adverse event takes place, instead of wondering "why did it happen ?", ask "why wasn't it worse ?". #Lebanon (#BedofProcrustes 3rd Ed?)

Survivorship bias is strong in this one

Tolstoy: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way Taleb: All blow up stories are alike; each success story is unique

Russia says some of its troops are being pulled out from Ukraine border bbc.in/3rRSprD