on an optimal and falliable exploration
I have curated the most important and deep parts of this book into the following quotes:- You don’t know yourself unless you have to make your own choices.- We don’t understand things when we have an edge. Only when we have the perspective of coming from behind.- If we win during bear markets you’ll be fine on bull markets.- Dispersion of outcomes ... See more
Tatiana Figueiredo • Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.
~ Cordelia • Tweet
Warren Buffett used a very apt metaphor once to describe how the second-order problem is best described by a crowd at a parade: Once a few people decide to stand on their tip-toes, everyone has to stand on their tip-toes. No one can see any better, but they’re all worse off.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
others’ mistake - your mistake = value
Chamath in lex’s podcast. Poker analogy
We spend a lot of time trying to get smarter and not enough time talking about how to avoid gettin dumber.
Ezra Klein
