nntaleb

Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative. But I am not familiar with the specific product to assert whether it is the best potential setup. And we need a long time to establish confidence. I only talk from skin-in-the-game. If I had money in bitcoin, I would have reported it. But I don't yet. I am waiting to understand it better, not with my brain, but with my experience...

I will say a second thing. I despise (that is have a moral revulsion against) cancer survivors like Armstrong who trade on it (and I got shellacked for saying it before his demise). And I hate the idea of boasting "winning" the war on cancer: radiation rooms are full of people who are "losing" for no fault of theirs.

I wrote a chapter in antifragile: get passing grades and follow voraciously your curiosity on the side instead of competing in school. In the end what matters is your curiosity, nothing else. And read nothing that doesn't interest you but interests someone else.

Excellent. I have to take a long walk and think about it... The fact that the juror has no upside mitigates the problem.

All cities built before the automobile (and not destroyed by planners) are great.