There are two categories that events/actions fall in: scalable and nonscalable. Whether it is the small town musician before the advent of the sound recording, or the local storyteller before the advent of the printing press – scalability destroys the notion of an equal share. A small number of people have a disproportionate amount of [...]
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“The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic”
“History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script tat produces the events, the generator of history… The human mind suffers from three ailments as it comes in contact with history, what I call the triplet of opacity… They are [1] the illusion of understanding… the retrospective distortion… the overvaluation of factual information [...]
“Prologue”
The concept of a Black Swan was something that was deemed impossible until one was discovered. It’s what we don’t know that is worth studying – events that deviate from the norm. To learn we have to look at the information that exists outside the bell curve. “The central idea of this book concerns our [...]