Most info- Web-media-newspaper types have a hard time swallowing the idea that knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from peoples heads

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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  3. Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

  4. A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

  5. You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

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