Paul Portesi
@PaulPortesi
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A very interesting difference between conversations and text/emails.
What kids don't realize is conversations with text & emails are bounded closed linear extrapolation. You get more information from conversations because they're not linear. Can go in any direction. You'll always get multi-dimensional information from conversations not linear.
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@nntaleb Taleb will the cost of doing tail hedging come down in the future so that the small guy with just $1000 could invest in the Universa tail hedge strategy run by Spitznagel ? What do you think? It's a liquidity problem or just that Wall Street is greedy for fees ? Paul Portesi
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@PaulPortesi Media richness theory: Channel has to be adapt to communication needs - poorer channels omit lots of information, but sometimes this is what you want One does not need a meeting for everything
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We need to thank people a lot more when they imagine worst case scenarios that break the imagnation of most people. Because risk management is about surviving when you don't know you're wrong. @PaulPortesi @nntaleb
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Warren Buffett’s famous analogy for teaching kids about taxes is to take a humorous, hands-on approach: "The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream". We need aphorisms like this about probability that are easy to get, because even a
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Retweet if you would buy an entire @PaulPortesi book packed with aphorisms for $10
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@PaulPortesi You become free when there is no distinction between journey and destination. ~ @nntaleb
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The point is text and emails keep a conversation going back and forth. Text and emails reduce entropy and conversation increases entropy because of the method used. A verbal conversation highly likely does not stay on a straight line of answering questions that were asked.
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The point is text and emails keep a conversation going back and forth. Text and emails reduce entropy and conversation increases entropy because of the method used. A verbal conversation highly likely does not stay on a straight line of answering questions that were asked.
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What kids don't realize is conversations with text & emails are bounded closed linear extrapolation. You get more information from conversations because they're not linear. Can go in any direction. You'll always get multi-dimensional information from conversations not linear.
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@PaulPortesi For some endeavours, the outcome is the goal because the process can be brutal.
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@IAmMicMars @krishnabtwtr @Porkchop_EXP @lilchiva @sebs_tweets @trishankkarthik
@PaulPortesi @sebs_tweets @AspLovePolitics @booksoftitans I was sorting old books and found one of my first purchases, I started buying books at 11 years old
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@PaulPortesi Love the finish. Hate the run. That's why it feels hollow.
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“The path is the goal” — Chögyam Trungpa 🪷
We fall in love with the certificate, the accomplishment, the attainment but not the pursuit, the path, the essence of the subject. The arrival is never needing to arrive but in the absolute emotional drive in what you're interested in not about some payoff from that attainment
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Everything from religion, macadamia, and business is focused on being right. The real information is how people behave when they're wrong. Right is easy the wrong is where the information is. I know I'm right about wrong. Right.
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@PaulPortesi tuve conversaciones por privado con grandes cuentas aquí antes de conocer tu cuenta, Pablo (esto será un secreto entre nosotros)
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