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20140115

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:00:27 2022 No.20140115 [Reply] [Original]

>I hesitate to give advice because every major single piece of advice I was given turned out to be wrong and I am glad I didn't follow them. I was told to focus and I never did. I was told to never procrastinate and I waited 20 years for The Black Swan and it sold 3 million copies. I was told to avoid putting fictional characters in my books and I did put in Nero Tulip and Fat Tony because I got bored otherwise. I was told to not insult the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the more I insulted them the nicer they were to me and solicit op-eds. I was told to avoid lifting weights for a back pain and became a weightlifter: never had a back problem since. If I had to relive my life I would be even more stubborn and uncompromising than I have been. One should never do anything without skin in the game. If you give advice, you need to be exposed to losses from it.

Whoa... there is hope for /lit/izens after all....

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:04:25 2022 No.20140137 >>20140115 Nobody posting on this board has "skin in the game." In reality, he got lucky.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:07:38 2022 No.20140151 >>20140115 Stop posting this IYI Arab

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:09:39 2022 No.20140160 >>20140137 It's easier to get lucky if you already have a PhD

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:12:01 2022 No.20140171 >>20140115 >skin in the game Didn't Wittgenstein already gives this advice like 60 years ago? Why does this Arab think he is novel?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:12:18 2022 No.20140173 >>20140115 Arabs aren't med.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:13:35 2022 No.20140178 File: 166 KB, 1080x564, 1646947889221.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20140115 >If I had to relive my life I would be even more stubborn and uncompromising than I have been.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:16:39 2022 No.20140191 >>20140115 >says this >autistically follows all COVID advice to the point where he triple-masks, wears a FACE SHIELD, and gloves when he travels on planes. What a hypocrite.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:29:36 2022 No.20140251 >>20140191 >is afraid of catching a disease that is potentially deadly for over-50s >is afraid of having to self-isolate when on a busy schedule neets have no clue

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:35:11 2022 No.20140269 >>20140251 He doesn't have a busy schedule. He likes "looking like" he has a busy schedule. Its a subtle difference. He's not some valuable asset to a community of researchers. He's a lecturer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:36:32 2022 No.20140271 >>20140269 Lecturers can't be busy?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:40:19 2022 No.20140287 >>20140115 >every major single Is he esl?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:46:08 2022 No.20140313 >>20140251 your second point is true, but being scared of catching it for health reasons is completely fucking craven and uninformed

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 19:48:41 2022 No.20140324 >>20140271 Not really. He sets his schedule and accepts bookings, there's no obligation to speak. He's a fucking millionaire.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 20:36:22 2022 No.20140513 >>20140313 >tfw over one million americans have died from it, mostly over 50, and some random anon calls somebody “craven” and “uninformed” for not wanting the same thing to happen to them now whip out the death count conspiracy theories

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 20:37:31 2022 No.20140520 File: 32 KB, 245x249, 1604899008134.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20140513 >>tfw >doesn't actually post a face mfw

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Anonymous Tue Mar 29 20:40:28 2022 No.20140538

>>20140171
>Why does this Arab think he is novel?
He doesn't. His whole schtick is that he's repeating ancient wisdom that the bureaucratic establishment (or as he calls them IYI) should already know.
He's basically the equivalent of
>Oh you Zappa, yeah, you should really listen to the Synaclaiver stuff man. That's the real experimental shit

>>

Anonymous Tue Mar 29 20:47:05 2022 No.20140563

Does nobody notice that he is giving advice to us without himself having any "skin in the game?"

Does nobody not see that all the advice he has taken, such as to brush his teeth or to not walk in traffic WAS useful?

Does nobody not realize that these assholes are only doing it for the money, and that any real advantage they keep to themselves?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 20:49:00 2022 No.20140571 >>20140563 god you're pathetic

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:16:41 2022 No.20140874 >>20140324 >millionaire >having money means you can't be busy

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:18:03 2022 No.20140879 >>20140874 The point being >he chooses to be busy

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:22:19 2022 No.20140895 >>20140879 and?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:28:02 2022 No.20140917 File: 36 KB, 530x530, SamuraiCowboy.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>20140269 >It's better to have a lot of time than to have a Rolex.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 29 22:30:02 2022 No.20140925 >>20140513 >mostly over 50 Mostly over 20 Mostly over 70