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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ahhh I love Taleb's books :D
"It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor, inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best. In Baudelaire's poem, "The albatross's giant wings prevent him from walking" - many do better in Calculus 103 than Calculus 101."
"Those who understand bacterial resistance in the biological domain completely fail to grasp the dictum by Seneca in De clemencia about the inverse effect of punishments. He wrote: "Repeated punishment, while it crushes the hatred of a few, stirs the hatred of all...just as trees that have been trimmed throw out again countless branches." For revolutions feed on repression, growing heads faster and faster as one literally cuts a few off by killing demonstrators. There is an Irish revolutionary song that encapsulates the effect: The higher you build your barricades, the stronger we become."
"As in Baudelaire's sad poem about the albatross, what is made to fly will not do well trapped on the ground, where it is forced to traipse."
"Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have - or don't have - in their portfolio."
"Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win."
"The glass is dead; living things are long volatility. The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations. Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren't for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty and an ethical life isn't so when stripped of personal risks."
"It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones, and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor, inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best. In Baudelaire's poem, "The albatross's giant wings prevent him from walking" - many do better in Calculus 103 than Calculus 101."
"Those who understand bacterial resistance in the biological domain completely fail to grasp the dictum by Seneca in De clemencia about the inverse effect of punishments. He wrote: "Repeated punishment, while it crushes the hatred of a few, stirs the hatred of all...just as trees that have been trimmed throw out again countless branches." For revolutions feed on repression, growing heads faster and faster as one literally cuts a few off by killing demonstrators. There is an Irish revolutionary song that encapsulates the effect: The higher you build your barricades, the stronger we become."
"As in Baudelaire's sad poem about the albatross, what is made to fly will not do well trapped on the ground, where it is forced to traipse."
"Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have - or don't have - in their portfolio."
"Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win."
"The glass is dead; living things are long volatility. The best way to verify that you are alive is by checking if you like variations. Remember that food would not have a taste if it weren't for hunger; results are meaningless without effort, joy without sadness, convictions without uncertainty and an ethical life isn't so when stripped of personal risks."