The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
Nassim Nicholas TalebAntifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
Nassim Nicholas TalebSwitzerland is the perfect place where you have volatility at a municipal level that nothing up top - small units competing with each other.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb