By all means, avoid words-threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

By all means, avoid words-threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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