Some of my favorite quotes and tweets that popped up in 2017 (most highlighted in my newsletter-- http://www.kyleschen.com/letter )
“Advertisements work best on lonely individuals.” - @rushkoff in Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
-
Show this thread
-
"Another type of formula used by many investors involves projecting their most recent personal experiences into the future." Seth Klarman, Margin of Safety
1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
"Beware of what I call Pascal's scams: movements or belief systems that ask you to hope for or worry about very improbable outcomes that could have very large positive or negative consequences."
@NickSzabo4 http://unenumerated.blogspot.mx/2012/07/pascals-scams.html …3 replies 21 retweets 74 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @kyleschen @NickSzabo4
Hmmmm isn't that exactly what
@nntaleb tells us to worry about re: Black Swans?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Black Swans are, by definition, unpredictable—
@NickSzabo4 is pointing to specific predictions of very unlikely things1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Splitting hairs a little here I think.
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
I think it’s a subtle but massively important point that most people who talk about Black Swans miss entirely.
1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
The Black Swan you get is highly unlikely to be the Black Swan you thought of.
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.