You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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