“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” — Leonardo Da Vinci

1943. The year that the little prince, being and nothingness, and fountainhead are all published.

BONUS - 5 More Text-Only Taleb Quotes that you enjoyed: - "It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness." - "It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a

accuracy is hard work and rewarded late, if at all. it is much easier to make a forecast seem entertaining or clever. Tim Harford 👏👏

Finance has four simple rules: maintain a clear mind, figure out asymmetries, detect circularities, and never talk to idiots.

"If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven't, respect by others is a necessity." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.” - Schopenhauer

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the

civilization’s amnesia loop: 1. notice a problem 2. invent a fix 3. turn the fix into tradition 4. forget what it was fixing 5. toss the tradition aside 6. rediscover the problem

Gösterişin, torpilin, kibrin ve sayamadığım binlerce putun kol gezdiği bu çağda; bir bakışın, bir duruşun, bir hayatın sadeliğine inanıyorum. fyodor dostoyevski

I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.

Went down the rabbit hole on this one. The answer is actually wild. 5,000 years ago, Sumerian merchants in modern-day Iraq needed a number that's easy to divide. They picked 60. It has 12 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Base-10 only has four. That's 3x as

We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get Wispr Flow to make a mistake It's the fastest and most accurate AI voice dictation app that's 3x more accurate than ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri. Today, we’re finally launching on Android. Download now: