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“Companies with new technologies are free to disrupt almost any industry they choose—journalism, television, music, manufacturing—so long as they don’t disrupt the financial operating system churning beneath it all. Hell,”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

“Decentralization is based on the simple notion that it is easier to macrobull***t than microbull***t. Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Systems learn by removing parts, via negativa.*4”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“Unless you are perfectly narcissistic and psychopathic—even then—your worst-case scenario is never limited to the loss of only your life.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life