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“The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: autism, intellectual-sophistication, internet, irony, nerd, nerdery, nerdiness, nerds, post-ironic, post-modern, post-modernism, reddit, sophistication, wisdom-vs-nerds, wit

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“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: addiction, carbohydrates, diabesity, dr-hyman, dr-robert-lustig, labor, laboring-class, sugar, sugar-addiction, sugar-the-bitter-truth, wage, wage-slavery

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“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: art, autism, details, intuition, nerd, nerdiness, nerds, poetry, wisdom, wisdom-vs-nerds

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“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

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“A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: empaths, empathy, intuition, prophet, wisdom

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