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The 12 Labors Of Nassim: Taleb “Plants ~300 Trees” En Route To Phoenician Exile
When last we checked in on our hero Nassim Taleb, he was gracing SALT with his presence and sitting down for an interview with a drooling, starstruck Erik Schatzker.
In that interview, Taleb explained in the clearest possible way why Donald Trump is "not an idiot." Here's what the black swan godfather said:
There’s a logic to Trump that you can only get if you look at Trump as Trump.
Got it.
Incidentally, that's the very same kind of self-referential, circular "logic" that fooled the enti
