Reading the books versus watching him behave like an insecure dick.
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got some decent writing on Seneca and stoicism.
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Currently reading Antifragile. I'll write a blog post about it and share it. Your theory is incomplete.
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I don't know how anyone got past The Black Swan's first 5 minutes of "See!!!!! I told you so!!!!" rhetoric regarding financial crashes
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By not starting there. I read Fooled by Randomness and then Bed.
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Black Swan was an important book for me in '07. An early stage in my skepticism. Comfort read? No. Worth my later re-read, tho.
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Antifragile is great insight porn.
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It inspired people's thinking: https://sarkology.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/the-event-is-not-the-exposure/ …
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I think Pre-Anti-Fragile I would say the appeals are 1) reaffirmation of erudition 2) the value of (and tools for) skepticism. 1/
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His prose is also lovely. (again, Pre-anti-fragile.) He is an ass on Twitter. I unfollowed, and he is not on any of my lists. 2/2
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. Theory: it's vicarious feel of punching empty-suit elites, not the ideas