Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Nassim N Taleb

As to liquid, my rule to is drink no liquid that is not at least a thousand years old – so its fitness has been tested. I drink just wine, water, and coffee. No soft drinks. Perhaps the most possibly deceitfully noxious drink is the orange juice we make poor innocent people imbibe at the breakfast table while, thanks to marketing, we convince them it is “healthy”. (Aside from the point that the citrus our ancestors ingested was not sweet, they never ingested carbohydrates without large, very large quantities of fiber. Eating an orange or an apple is not biologically equivalent to drinking orange or apple juice.) from such examples, I derived the rule that what is called “healthy’ is generally unhealthy, just as “social” networks are antisocial, and the “knowledge” – based economy is typically ignorant. ~ Page 362 [Excerpt from Antifragile by Nassim Taleb]

Now ethics. Under opacity and in the newfound complexity of the world, people can hide risks and hurt others, with the law incapable of catching them. Iatrogenics has both delayed and invisible consequences. It is hard to see casual links, to fully understand what’s going on. Under such epistemic limitation, skin in the game is the only true mitigator of fragility. Hammurabi’s Code provided a simple solution – close to thirty seven hundred years ago. This solution has been increasingly abandoned in modern times, as we have developed a fondness for neomanic complication over archaic simplicity. We need to understand the everlasting solidity of such a solution. ~ Page373

The hedonic treadmill is a psychological theory that suggests that humans have a tendency to return to a relatively stable level of happiness or subjective wellbeing, despite changes in their circumstances or external conditions. HWW & Best wishes