Alin Matei

Explorer. Creator. Flâneur.

Passionate about writing, music, uncertainty and complexity.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@piticu21 Cred că ai nimerit coincidental vreo linie de cod, că i-ai activat pe toți.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"Only in recent history has “working hard” signaled pride rather than shame for lack of talent, finesse, and, mostly, sprezzatura." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"We need to feel a little bit lost somewhere, physically or intellectually, at least once a day." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Black Swan

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

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[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Friends, my new paper on #Lindy. These are the proofs for error detection.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@nntaleb Most people I know cancelled their plane tickets awhile ago. The US is everything but welcoming nowadays. You guys have fun with the world cup.

[Alin Matei @alinm]

Stop and consider: what is the point of this entire action? What special strategic purpose do these men achieve, besides instilling terror?

At the very end, the Israeli military is paid to push a pile of cardboard over the counter. Embarrassing.

Whan can we do to stop this?

[Alin Matei @alinm]

People don’t want inequality, yet inequality continues. People don’t want war, yet war continues. And almost all this strong disagreement is manifested online.

1. What does this say about this medium?

2. What does this say about our leaders?

3. What does this say about us?

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed this little Palestinian girl in Gaza today.

They shot her while she was sitting in class inside a tent in Beit Lahia.

She was only 9 years old.

No headlines. No outrage. No condemnation.

Not a peep from the “international community.”

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

Netanyahu is everything they told us Hilter was.

[Ahmet Gemici @ahmetgemici2990]

Sizden bir ricam olabilir mi?! Filistin hakkında konuşmayı bırakmayın lütfen... Algoritmayı bozmak için nokta bırakın. 💔🇵🇸

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

BRO I’M FUCKING DEAD

[Alin Matei @alinm]

@PhilosophyDose_ Sounds uncharacteristic of him. Do you happen to have a source?

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

Europe has to understand that NATO isnt a one way street. If Europe does not support the USA now, dont expect the Americans to help the next time Denmark or Canada randomly decide to invade other countries!

[Alin Matei @alinm]

Create as much as you consume. Even if you think what you create has little value. Thinking and doing are intertwined. Without the doing part, thinking is just delusion and schizophrenia.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

This isn't complicated. No so-called peace plan of 20, 28, or 280 points will change the fact that Putin doesn't want peace. He wants to destroy Ukraine and is using Trump to do it.