I was holding off for a special piece on the levels of knowledge/decision making one can operate on, but I was tempted to jump the gun by a fresh example of this concept being put to work by Nassim Taleb. It was just too juicy to pass up. Those of you who follow me on Twitter probably have already been aggravated by more than one of my bizarre-sounding, counterintuitive and “obviously nonsensical” tweets and retweets. Here is a recent sampling of what I am referring to (I’m not embedding the tweets or the attribution to keep this short and sweet; you can find the originals by using your brain): When the Romans said AMAT VICTORIA CURAM, they weren’t talking about planning. Women love men who love women. Can I possibly make this any clearer? Say less. The only way we have to truly “know” reality is to become it. That is the only way Nature operates – against itself. Don’t ask for permission. To find contentment, find out who you are. I love cheesecake. I just don’t eat it. It’s better only if people use it. If nothing matters, then it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter. Things are not what they seem to be, nor are they otherwise. Perhaps the most pervasive & destructive delusion in the world is that you need to have the information in order to make good decisions. Consensus is a euphemism for wrong. The more complex the strategy, the less it is a strategy, (Blood in the game.) Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. Don’t be poor. The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. I can go on and on, but by now you probably get the pattern. Meanwhile, I … Continue reading How Nassim Taleb Uses “Authentic Knowledge” as a Superpower