Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Nerdiness
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse
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If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism
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