“Skin in the game is about honor, courage and sacrifice. If you don’t take risks in what you do, you’re nothing.” – Nassim Nicholas Taleb You will want to read and reread every word of this missive because FAILURE IS OUR ONLY CONNECTION TO REALITY. And by abolishing failure, we are making our world ever less authentic. Our impending immortality will complete our Fakehood. INCERTO above the Treetops Although I have been following his missives and the INCERTO, I’m not going to read Nassim Taleb’s new book “Skin in the Game” until I have published this anti-review. The main objective of the anti-review is to put some of the high-level ideas behind “SITG” and the INCERTO through an empirical test for “authentic knowledge” (accessible mostly to non-idiots), for whether one mind can “grasp” another more in action and decision and less through the mist of semantic systems. The anti-review relies on NNT’s his writing, public appearances and activity on and off the Internet, as he has talked about and practiced SITG for many years. I have only caught glimpses of what some have said on Twitter about “SITG”(no media reviews or anything long-form) and a skim-through the book’s contents pages. You will see the method to this madness as you read on. As anti-semantic praxis, I’m also publishing the anti-review in both French and English, so that bilingual readers can experience the Myst for themselves. While I had no doubt that “SITG” would be remarkably good, I did not expect it to surpass “Fooled by Randomness” as Maestro Taleb’s most game-changing work. I was wrong. SO WRONG. Here is but a smattering of subjects that SITG touches and transforms like the wand of a grand master wizard: Why you have decided before you decide What we are and how we came … Continue reading Why I Am Not a Vegetarian (and You Might Consider Not Being an Idiot, Too)