Nassim Taleb: the richest man in the Roman Empire woke up every morning pretending he was poor.
Seneca had more to lose than to gain from his wealth - so he rehearsed losing it. Every so often he'd live on bread and water as if shipwrecked, just to make the downside familiar and harmless.
That's the whole game, Taleb says: arrange your life so you have far more upside than downside - then randomness stops scaring you.
"Make more when you're right than you lose when you're wrong - that's antifragile."
"Always keep more upside than downside from random events."
"The Stoics aren't unmoved by the world - only by bad events."
~70 min, free. the oldest trick for surviving a world you can't predict ↓
Since this blew up… Modern Egyptians are absolutely decedents of Ancient Egyptians. Conquests do not eradicate native populations. Obviously.
BUT the real lesson is that human beings are awesome and can build awesome stuff (when they’re not held back by building regulations).
People always say age is just a number. However, one of the biggest changes I’ve noticed over the last decade is that when I get a small injury, instead of taking 3 days to heal like in my prime… it now takes 3 weeks 😁
“The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@NaguibSawiris بص هو النادي اليوناني و نادي سبورتنج اخر كيلومتر مربع فاضل لنا، بس ممكن نعمل مارينا زي بتاعة Ayia Napa كده هتبقي بداية مش بطالة خالص لمشروع MAKE ALEXANDRIA GREAT AGAIN، قولت ايه؟
الراجل ده عنده قناة علي يوتيوب اسمها "المهاجر" وبجد المحتوي اللي بيعمله مهم جدا اي حد في العشرينات يقعد يتفرج عليه. الراجل ما شاء الله كل افكاره well-structured و بيتكلم بناء علي خبرة. بجد احسن من التعفن الدماغي و عقلية الضحية اللي علي تويتر