We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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