As a polymath and Bitcoin maximalist, I see Bitcoin as a portal to ideas of great thinkers of which I'm a student: Gustave Le Bon's crowd psychology, Eric Hoffer's fanatical mass movements, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's antifragility and skin in the game, Friedrich von Hayek's distributed knowledge and monetary competition, Jorge Luis Borges' illusion of reality,… Continue reading Bitcoin as a Portal of Ideas
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From Tolstoy, Kafka, to Taleb
Before Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, we are always in a state of ignorance. The moment we decided to escape, we sank into the faint light of fake knowledge. The good news is that, from Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, we are slowly finding our way… Continue reading From Tolstoy, Kafka, to Taleb
Andy Yee 