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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out - by Ivan Vendrov

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the actually scary thing about social media

Thinking about Nassim Nicholas Taleb always makes me sad. My brother handed me a copy of The Black Swan twelve years ago and it was a revelation, it blew my intellectual world open - Taleb seemed the perfect embodiment of the gentleman-scholar I’d always hoped to become. He saw through the pseudo-intellectual bullshit drowning the world and was working on the most fundamental questions, working at whatever hours he felt like, flaneuring around cities, reading classics and proving math theorems. Now I can’t even look at his Twitter because of how sad it makes me. He seems to have become a…

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