RT @nntaleb: On X, I can see people & their obsessions. Some are obsessed with genetic supremacy Some are obsessed with high fat diets Some…

Falling birth rates raise prospect of sharp decline in living standards via @ft

RT @elonmusk: Milton Friedman was the best

RT @elonmusk: The more that is spent, the worse it gets, because the money doesn’t go to the homeless, it goes to the hundreds of “charitie…

RT @TansuYegen: 🛤️🚂 Chinese scientists invented a trackless tram.

RT @ole_b_peters: Max Planck's 1946 Goettingen colloquium on scheinproblems is something everyone should know about.

@SteadyCompound Thanks for sending me the Warren Buffett Investing Checklist. 👋 🙂

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Once sanctions are in, it is very difficult to remove them. Same with subsidies, cockroaches, termites, kleptocrats and economic theories.

Heuristic: any negotiation, business or political, that lasts longer than one hour (excl. meals) is no longer a negotiation; it's more like an attempt to verbally resuscitate a dead horse. Usually parties come to agreement by rapid convergence; the rest is filling-in the details.

When a clown moves into a palace, the clown does not become a king – the palace becomes a circus.

“Le foisonnement des mots bidons est l’une des plaies du management actuel.” ~Philippe Silberzahn Ils 1) masquent une pensée confuse. 2) traduisent une paresse intellectuelle. 3) nous enferment dans des débats stériles. 4) permettent de tout justifier, surtout l’incompétence.

So much information, so little insight. There is more ex post understanding of society but it seems there is far less ex ante insight (which is overwhelming). Today’s information super glut is ambiguous. We do not know the impact of the new things we know.

Knowledge has been parceled due to the way knowledge is created and disseminated in modern academia, but very few people are able to create systems of thought that go across multiple disciplines and display internal coherence. @HECLiege

If you lost interest in a subject matter right after a final exam, you fooled the system and the system fooled you.

Twitter in a nutshell: Tell people what they want to hear and gain followers. Or: Tell people the truth and lose followers.

Right now we're all involuntary subjects of a real-time, large-scale non-controlled science experiment on the global population, and most people seem to be OK with it.

Sometimes people mistakenly believe that the best or truest scientific ideas rise to the top of the heap — that popularity implies accuracy and rigor. This has never quite been the case.

Nice words are seldom true, true words are seldom nice - Lao Tse.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried. Understanding the true role of failure in our lives. #successful