The other day, I mentioned that good authors will inevitably lead you to other good authors. The cool thing about this is that you rarely need to ask someone about good books to read if you’ve already begun reading good books. Like a current, the authors you’re engaged with will take you to amazing places.
One person who has helped me find good authors over the past couple years is Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He writes books in which you can read and very easily understand his main points, but at the same time, the books become very technical and complex–if you want to read those parts. His latest book, Antifragile, does a good job leading the reader both to and away from the complex information.
His insight actually transfers very well to the Twitter landscape. Here are some of his most recent tweets and retweets:
“What is surprising is not the magnitude of our forecast errors, but our absence of awareness of it.” @nntaleb The Black Swan
— Kim Engel (@kengel100) June 24, 2014
You may eventually forgive and befriend someone who harmed you, never someone who bored you.
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) June 23, 2014
How painful to discover that someone we deemed intelligent is an idiot;even worse to find out someone we called stupid is very intelligent
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) June 18, 2014
When people call you intelligent it is because they agree with you. Otherwise they just call you arrogant.
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) June 17, 2014
Take a moment to figure out whether you’d rather be praiseworthy but not praised, or praised but not praiseworthy.
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) June 16, 2014
Some ideas are born as you write then down, others become dead.
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) June 16, 2014
“Never debate the ignorant in front of the uninformed: the crowd can’t tell who won the argument”. Syrian Proverb
— Nassim N. Taleb (@nntaleb) June 15, 2014
If you’re on Twitter, I suggest following him. If you’re not on Twitter, I suggest signing up so that you can follow him.
RISE AND CONVERGE 