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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Retirement

born 1960 Lebanon

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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

I suddenly felt insecure and feared becoming an employee of some firm that would turn me into a corporate slave with "work ethics" (whenever I hear the word work ethics I interpret inefficient mediocrity).

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)

Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.

Fooled by Randomness (2001)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.