@_benoux_ quick shout out to Francois for opening my eyes to the narcotic of cultism. When I first got into taleb a couple years ago I had a strong attachment because ideas and feelings I felt my whole life were being verbalized publicly by N. But after it was easy for me to fall
And treat n and many ideas and people surrounding him as people who had the magic power to get me rich or help me succeed. But we all know that’s not how this stuff works
I first stumbled upon a Francois tweet around 7 months ago discussing corona with Taleb I was quick to side with taleb without realizing I had no idea what I was talking about From then on I’ve been able to enjoy taleb and agree sometimes while easily being able to disagree a lot
I do feel intellectually inferior when I’m on Benoux’s site and other people in this Twitter spheres pages, I want to enjoy the classics but as a 24 year old American Lehman I find myself struggling to choose what to learn first whether it’s programming, Manual labor or languages
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