Puneet

“The knowledge we get by tinkering, via trial and error, experience, and the workings of time, in other words, contact with the earth, is vastly superior to that obtained through reasoning, something self-serving institutions have been very busy hiding from us.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“tendency of those in power will always be to reduce their subjects to the extreme of weakness, for the weaker the oppressed, the less effort need be made to keep him in subjection.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You

“The only definition of rationality that I’ve found that is practically, empirically, and mathematically rigorous is the following: what is rational is that which allows for survival. Unlike modern theories by psychosophasters, it maps to the classical way of thinking. Anything that hinders one’s survival at an individual, collective, tribal, or general level is, to me, irrational.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“complex systems do not have obvious one-dimensional cause-and-effect mechanisms, and that under opacity, you do not mess with such a system.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life