Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.
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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
nassim nicholas talebTechnology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That’s why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
Robert Reich