Tooleb’s true, anti-Trump liberal colors are showing. Here’s another Tweet in which Taleb sides with the left, in this case the Washington Post: Yes. https://t.co/5goqmDylmu — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) November 20, 2018 How many Americans know or care who Khashoggi is? Not that many. Come 2020, it will be an afterthought. Even among those… Continue reading Khashoggi murder will Not stain America and Trump

I wish there were a way to bet against climate change disaster. So many pundits seem certain that climate change will doom humanity or destroy the global economy. People have a tendency or bias to overestimate the likelihood of bad news, just as the overwhelming majority of pundits wrongly predicted in 2016-2017 that the U.S.… Continue reading Betting against climate change disaster

People hold up this guy up as some sort of paragon of genius, hut here is a tweet I pulled at random: We face 3 predators: The State, Near-State Institutions (e.g. academia, media) & Large Corporations. Large corps end up destroying themselves (life expec. <10 y in SP500).Others stick and grow. https://t.co/wqD76PwJv1 — Nassim Nicholas… Continue reading Higher level thinking

Jeff Bezos tells employees ‘one day Amazon will fail’” “Amazon is not too big to fail … In fact, I predict one day Amazon will fail. Amazon will go bankrupt. If you look at large companies, their lifespans tend to be 30-plus years, not a hundred-plus years,” Bezos told staff, according to a recording that… Continue reading Amazon will not fail anytime soon

With the midterms over and the results underwhelming for the ‘right’, the news cycle is kinda slow as of late. Unfortunately, 2019 and 2020 can be written off. Due to the divided Congress, the obstinate courts, and Trump’s reelection bid, there won’t be any time for policy, nor is there much of a desire by… Continue reading There won’t be a repeat of WW1: a case for stability

Blame Modern Life for Political Strife Although the culture wars seem especially contentious now, Americans have a long tradition of waging culture war: Trump in office may have fanned the flames to some degree, but the seeds were planted well in advance–things like campus protests, internet outrage culture, and BLM protests, etc. predate Trump by… Continue reading Politics may seem bad now, but it used to be much worse

From The Atlantic, this article is going viral: Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? I dunno if it’s just me, but I’m tired of these ‘concern pieces’ by the NYTs, The Atlantic, Vox, and The New Yorker. “Young people are not doing enough XYZ,” whether it’s scolding young people for not buying homes,… Continue reading Young people are not having sex

The Mad Rush to College is Killing Our Children’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Entrepreneurship, of course, requires time devoted to imagining and dreaming—time today’s students simply don’t have. Many spend every minute trying to build a résumé that will usher them into the best colleges. In The Coddling of the American Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and… Continue reading The Mad Rush to College is Killing Our Children’s Entrepreneurial Spirit: Analysis

From Wiki, The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils’ scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading. It was first performed in 2000 and then repeated every three… Continue reading Why America’s mediocre PISA rankings are not a big deal

Anti-HBD liberal Nassim Taleb endorses ‘reverse-Darwinism’ (survival of the un-fittest): A society is as advanced as its treatment of its weak, its handicapped and incapacitated. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) November 2, 2018 From Nature Beats Nurture: This is true. The left twists science so that it agrees with their ideology. The left believes in… Continue reading Nassim Taleb endorses ‘reverse-Darwinism’