10. Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The bed of Procrustes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote some of his favourite maxims and ways to think in life into a book.
This is a great hand book for nuggets of wisdom to ponder upon. Thus ponder we do on some of our favourites.
Some examples include
* What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.
* A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
* The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
* You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
* Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
* You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
* Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
* Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
* Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
* They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.
* A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote some of his favourite maxims and ways to think in life into a book.

This is a great hand book for nuggets of wisdom to ponder upon. Thus ponder we do on some of our favourites.

Some examples include

What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today’s employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.
You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.
You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
Preoccupation with efficacy is the main obstacle to a poetic, elegant, robust and heroic life.
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called “work” in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking “outside the box”; and when they die they are put in a box.
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.