I first heard about this man on a Joe Rogan podcast where a guest mentioned him in relation to this quote:
With my family, I am a Communist. With my friends, I am a Socialist. With my community, I am a Democrat. With my State, I am a Republican. With the Federal government, I am a Libertarian.
That got my attention.
Talib is the author of the 2007 book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Looking into him a little deeper brought me these quotes:
Only the autodidacts are free.
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.
Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we’re building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.
I think I need to read his book.