Nassim Taleb: “I went from trading to theory—so I could see bullsh!t in the theories. But if you go from theory to trading—that’s the trouble. And most books on risk are written by people who never took risk themselves.”
5-1b1a2c0 No theory can exhaust reality
2-1a4 ‘Language instinct’ - Language can’t exhaust mind
5-2b5 Theories precede data
1-1a2e4 Cultures precede languages
4-1a5b Your problems precede any conversations
5-2b4 Explanation (explicit or inexplicit) precedes both your options and choices