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You know, I read through the whole article. I even agreed with pretty much all of it. I didn't run into anything I found particularly insightful. Actually, I k
by nolemurs 10y ago
You know, I read through the whole article. I even agreed with pretty much all of it. I didn't run into anything I found particularly insightful.
Actually, I kind of feel like the reasoning in this article can be profitably applied to Taleb's own image management.
- sjg007 10y agoI mean this is the contrarian mindset which if we believe in startup land is how you find success. Models for success: find some niche and grow it (kind of a contradiction); develop some new technology; or X is broken; copy X from market A and paste in market B (where X is not).
- bbctol 10y agoIn a weird way, that's sort of the reason to read Taleb. It's about 90% posturing and sophist bullshit and 10% legitimate insight, but at least the insight is "90% of the time intellectuals are just posturing and spouting sophist bullshit." Maybe he's making some meta-demonstration, though more likely he's just really self-unaware, but I've still found it worth reading enough until you realize why you can discount most of it.