The Black Swan
You are very likely to be fooled about their intentions.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Black Swan
All zoogles are boogles. You saw a boogle. Is it a zoogle? Not necessarily, since not all boogles are zoogles; adolescents who make a mistake in answering this kind of question on their SAT test might not make it to college. Yet another person can get very high scores on the SATs and still feel a chill of fear when someone from the wrong side of to
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The more unexpected the success of such a venture, the smaller the number of competitors, and the more successful the entrepreneur who implements the idea.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Black Swan
Paul Graham's idea of a successful startup
easily conceived
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out of reach...
(bold)
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set of functions with low VC dimension
expectations.
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or from their daily routine
fragility
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curse or bless?
As close to utopian equality as reality can spontaneously deliver
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Black Swan
Indeed the editing process can be severely distorting, particularly when the author is assigned what is called a “good editor.”)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Black Swan
there is no way to derive profits from traded securities
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