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I ordered set of thee books by @nntaleb delivered to me 3 days back. What are the odds I got this mail from substack today? #fooledbyrandomness

Just built this Taleb's Rigged Urn Nonlinearity Simulation. cc @nntaleb
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#loserTakesAll
"If you lose money, it can be bad luck. It you blow up, it is certainly incompetence. #FooledbyRandomness" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb https://t.co/gfx7MU8aDt
"Conspiracy theorizing reflects minds evolved enough to see patterns, but insufficiently to prune out the spurious." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #FooledbyRandomness
Economists predict China will become “the next Japan”, citing similar structural challenges. But if history were replayed, would Japan necessarily repeat the same path?
History does teach us a lot—but it’s better treated as stochastic not deterministic.
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The arrow of history has noise but a strong drift. For those distressed w/Calligulino & North Macedonia, view them as one of the temporary setbacks in a 6000 year history of non-gradual, jumpy improvement.
More technically, History proved to be a stochastic fat-tailed process w/a strong drift.
[Even more technically, here is a Compound Poisson Process with Power-law bi-directional jumps, to simplify a Levy Pr]
![nntaleb's tweet photo. The arrow of history has noise but a strong drift. For those distressed w/Calligulino & North Macedonia, view them as one of the temporary setbacks in a 6000 year history of non-gradual, jumpy improvement.
More technically, History proved to be a stochastic fat-tailed process w/a strong drift.
[Even more technically, here is a Compound Poisson Process with Power-law bi-directional jumps, to simplify a Levy Pr]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-qC6BUXoAA6W9p.png)
For every coach that has ever said….
“Too close to take” you may want to reconsider.
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Today I went through every 3-2 pitch Juan Soto saw in the 2025 season. Three things stuck out:
1️⃣ He Doesn’t Expand - he has some of the best strike zone awareness of anyone in the game. When he gets to two strikes, he does not chase or expand the zone. Most players start swinging at pitcher’s pitches. He makes pitchers execute a quality pitch to get him out.
2️⃣ He Competes! -he takes great pride in being a tough out. He battles. He doesn’t give in. He finds a way to get on base.
3️⃣ His Approach - because he’s so willing to use the entire field, his two strike approach does not need to change much. He gets a long look at each pitch because he’s willing to hit the fastball to the opposite field and pull the breaking ball.
@orrdavid (3) Because your constant criticism of money managers who have been doing this over a few cycles reeks of projection, particularly given your own portfolio’s construction. But if you make it past 20 years, give me a call, and I’ll buy you lunch. #FooledByRandomness
Four of the top six defensive players according to EPM are guards.
Pretty surprising considering how seems like big defense has been more emphasized for past 5 years or so.
Idk if it means anything or just me being #FOOLEDBYRANDOMNESS

ye ol' moving average (low pass filter)
Bitcoin price crosses over a smoothed Bitcoin price that is incorrectly lagged.
This means *something!*
'Killa' analysis
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$BTC has printed a Death Cross.
Most accounts highlight the 4 death crosses this cycle that marked bottoms, but only to fit their bias. Let’s step back and look at the bigger picture objectively.
Death crosses during a bull cycle, when analyzed through a time-based lens, are often designed to bait traders. Timing matters. While this cycle has seen a death cross act bullish 4/4 times, that doesn’t mean the pattern will continue indefinitely, especially as we approach the statistically significant end of the cycle.
This suggests that the current death cross could resemble those from March 2018 or December 2021. Context, market structure, and overall cycle positioning are crucial when analyzing these crossovers. Unlike earlier in the cycle, this cross isn’t appearing at the start or middle of a bull run, it’s forming near the end.
That doesn’t rule out short term relief, but structurally, the HTF bias remains bearish below until proven otherwise.

"The problem with historical reporting is overestimation of agency: narratives require leaders so people are fooled by journos etc. about the exact process. Same overestimation of agency as the one in #fooledbyrandomness" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#Fooledbyrandomness is 24 years old.
Right. But did luck play no role in all these success stories?
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When people brag to you (or on their podcast) about their short term gambling ..err trading successes…
do you know what they rarely - if ever - mention❓
_________
👉DON’T IGNORE the #SilentEvidence
👉DON’T be #FooledByRandomness
👉try to learn from #BehavioralScience
Investing 🚫🟰Gambling
Which are you doing?
Do you know?
$MSOS $TLRY etc…
Today seems like a good day to revisit this post
👇
https://t.co/ygU6SjNedB

"The problem with historical reporting is overestimation of agency: narratives require leaders so people are fooled by journos etc. about the exact process. Same overestimation of agency as the one in #fooledbyrandomness" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
"Conspiracy theorizing reflects minds evolved enough to see patterns, but insufficiently to prune out the spurious." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb #FooledbyRandomness
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