“Do not listen to economic forecasters or to predictors in social science (they are mere entertainers).”
I think a part of me has always wanted to be an entertainer (harking back to those juggling shows I did in Mexico in 1994); maybe I should get into forecasting.
-from Taleb’s often insightful but woefully underedited diatribe The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbably, p203
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Why isn’t it hard for me to imagine you as a Mexican circus performer?
To show the intergenerational stickiness, note this recent photo of my youngest son posing as a luchador.