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Mohammed Alshiekh
https://www.goodreads.com/sahabi
“My dear Socrates … you know why they are putting you to death? It is because you make people feel stupid for blindly following habits, instincts, and traditions. You may be occasionally right. But you may confuse them about things they’ve been doing just fine without getting in trouble. You are destroying people’s illusions about themselves. You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don’t understand. And you have no answer; you have no answer to offer them.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)”
― Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
“In 2011, he said that Donald Trump would run for the Republican nomination—and had a “damn good” chance of winning it.19”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.”
― Forward the Foundation
― Forward the Foundation
“There is such a thing as nonnerdy applied mathematics: find a problem first, and figure out the math that works for it (just as one acquires language), rather than study in a vacuum through theorems and artificial examples, then change reality to make it look like these examples.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
Mohammed’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mohammed’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
788 books
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27 friends
438 books
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104 friends
141 books
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31 friends
153 books
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37 friends
215 books
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146 friends
122 books
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62 friends
49 books
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21 friends
138 books
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10 friends
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