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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• The longer an idea has survived, the longer it's likely to last

  For perishable things, age predicts death. For ideas, books and technologies, it's the reverse: something that has been around 2,000 years is a better bet to last another century t…

  — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

• The events that reshape economies the most are the ones nobody saw coming

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "black swan" events are rare, extreme, and seemingly impossible to predict, yet feel obvious and inevitable in hindsight, think major financial crashes or s…

  — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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