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# Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/17192/
- Published: 2011-01-05T06:43:28.000Z
- Updated: 2011-01-05T06:43:28.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

![Nassim Taleb](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Nassim-Taleb-300x225.jpg "Nassim Taleb")

Talebisms

If you didn't know about it, [Nassim Taleb has an online notebook](http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). I'm not sure whether he regularly adds to it, but there's a ton of prose on it already. I downloaded it to my iPad and scroll through it regularly. Because I'm pressed for time this morning, I'm merely reproducing a handful of my favorite aphorisms from the site: “We worry about 'too big,' but the biggest error-prone centralized top-down institution in the world is the US Gov. It is getting bigger.” \* \* \* \* \* “Charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.” \* \* \* \* \* “The Stoic sage should withdraw from public efforts when unheeded & state is corrupt beyond repair.\[Seneca\] Wiser to wait for self-destruction” \* \* \* \* \* “Most modern technologies are deferred punishment.” \* \* \* \* \* “It is much harder to be a Stoic when wealthy, powerful, and respected than when destitute, miserable, and lonely.” \* \* \* \* \* “Modernity: We created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.” \* \* \* \* \* “Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a more complicated system he thinks he understands.” \* \* \* \* \* “Nietzche: Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations, it is the rule”