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To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others

by Daniel H. Pink (Goodreads Author)

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: celebrities, celebrity, celebrity-culture, modern-values, role-model, role-models, sports, sportsman, sportsmanship, values

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“Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: absence, evidence, medicine, quip, wordplay

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“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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“Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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“Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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