The print era tied authority to expertise and institutional backing. Television shifted credibility toward charisma and visual presentation. Social media has rewritten the rules again: trust is no longer about expertise, but about performance. This environment fosters the rise of the TikTok Oracle, where complex cultural critiques are distilled... See more

Author Nassim Taleb on why earned knowledge and being in the details is superior:

“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”

I dove into work showing that highly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that they actually get worse with experience, even while becoming more confident—a dangerous combination. And I was stunned when cognitive psychologists I spoke with led me to an enormous and too often ignored body of work demonstrating that learning itself is

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