Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom ✓
@TalebWisdom · joined 05 Dec 2018
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"In a crowd of a hundred, 50 percent of the wealth, 90 percent of the imagination, and 100 percent of the intellectual courage will reside in a single person—not necessarily the same one." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes https://t.co/gfx7MU8aDt
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"The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes
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"NATIONALISM: there is an individual, then nation, little above. Causes Wars: outside lives don't exist. FRACTAL LOCALISM: individual ⊂‚ various tribes (family, friends...) ⊂‚ tribes ⊂‚ ... Humanity. NEVER exclusive: One (me) can ⊂‚ Greek & Lebanese tribes+US
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"In order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can’t know) is the central idea of uncertainty." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@TalebWisdom Took me 6 months to get out of bed and find a job.
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That’s it for April’s Top 10 @TalebWisdom quotes (+ a bonus).
Which one was your favorite? Let me know in the replies 👇
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BONUS - 5 More Text-Only Taleb Quotes that you enjoyed:
- "It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness."
- "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
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10. “Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.” https://t.co/mgJrq7FEDx
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9. “When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.” https://t.co/juS7QjNztD
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8. "If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing." https://t.co/gf0rnoyBXB
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7. "The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death." https://t.co/MCWA3GnxGl
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6. "If someone's insults' bother you; it is evidence that you respect him." https://t.co/aTDtdzWsaz
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4. "What I learned on my own I still remember." https://t.co/iZoHLL9TwA
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Never threaten when angry
Never promise when joyful
Never plan when gloomy
Never reply when tired
Never buy when euphoric https://t.co/pNc0qvEfpy
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3. “You may never know what type of person someone is unless they are given opportunities to violate moral or ethical codes.” https://t.co/5B01MHb1QW
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2. "I am sometimes taken aback by how people can have a miserable day or get angry because they feel cheated by a bad meal, cold coffee, a social rebuff or a rude reception. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a htt
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📊 Top 10 Most Liked Posts from @TalebWisdom – April 2025
A recap of your favorite Taleb quotes last month:
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1. "Missing a train is only painful if you run after it". https://t.co/WNO1UdqeBW
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes69.5%2 976 in total
Reposts7.1%303 in total
Replies0.8%36 in total
Quotes0.4%18 in total
Bookmarks22.1%947 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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