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When evaluating Taleb’s work you have to force yourself into a mindset of ignoring the messenger and focusing on the message. Load the content into your right-
by SkyMarshal 7y ago
When evaluating Taleb’s work you have to force yourself into a mindset of ignoring the messenger and focusing on the message. Load the content into your right-brain analytical mind and then firewall it off from your other reactions. Don’t let his personality induce bias into your analysis and judgement of his work.
Maybe you’ll ultimately find value in it, or maybe not. But you won’t know for sure if you’re spending most of your CPU cycles on hating the messenger.
It’s annoying to have to do, but a useful skill to work out and keep fit from time to time, not just for dealing with Taleb but plenty of other irksome sources in life.
- freepor 7y agoHave to do this with Wolfram too. There’s a good mind and a good man behind all the puffery.
- lidHanteyk 7y agoIs there? What is it, exactly? Could you show us? All I see is an Etonian, a work-stealer and plagiarist, a slapper of his own name onto things built by groups of people. His lone interesting contribution, the idea of cellular automata for quantum theories, failed Bell's requirements and had to be rescued by others.
- machawinka 7y agoThis weird guy despises university professors while being one himself. Nevertheless, he has something to say and, personally, I have learned a few things from his books. Recommended.
- ironmagma 7y agoThat doesn’t seem tremendously uncommon from my college experience. There’s definite inter-department rivalry and even within the department you get one or two savants who kind of does their own thing.