📊 Top 10 Most Liked Posts from @TalebWisdom – April 2025 A recap of your favorite Taleb quotes last month: 🧵👇 1. "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it".

"In general, when people selfstyle themselves "entrepreneur", "polymath", or something of the sort, they're not. Real entrepreneurs calls themselves "restaurant chain CEO", "Ski equipment manufacturer", "kidney imaging importer"..." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"True humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"Technology is the result of antifragility, exploited by risk-takers in the form of tinkering and trial and error, with nerd-driven design confined to the backstage." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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"Skin in the Game: Let the unemployed & those earning below some threshold decide on minimum wage, not some virtue signaling bureaucrat." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Antifragile

"Complaints don't deliver complaints, they mostly reveal your weakness." - @nntaleb

"When comparing salaries of government workers, consider that they have a much, much lower risk of unemployment and layoff than the rest of the population. This employment guarantee is a yuuuge hidden compensation." - @nntaleb

"Be polite, courteous, and gentle, but ignore comments, praise, and criticism from people you wouldn't hire." - @nntaleb

"Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"To teach someone a real skill, teach him how to take risk & fail. He will never learn this in school. No nonrisktaker can ever teach it. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #risk

"Mathematicians think in proofs, lawyers in constructs, logicians in operators, dancers in movement, artists in impressions, and idiots in labels." - @nntaleb

"The problem with academics is that they really think that nonacademics find them more intelligent than themselves." - @nntaleb

"We ingest probiotics because we don’t eat enough “dirt” anymore." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The only objective definition of aging is when a person starts to talk about aging." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

"To become a philosopher king, start with being a king, not being a philosopher." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Silver Rule (negative golden rule): Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. Note the difference from the Golden Rule, as the silver one prevents busybodies from attempting to run your life." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

"Using quotes by modern psychologists is the bullshitter's imitation of depth. " - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #LindyEffect

"The opposite of "b**llshitter" isn't someone called "truthful" but someone called "arrogant"." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb