“I... found a significant advantage in selecting aged traders, using as a selection criterion their cumulative years of experience rather than their absolute success... [O]lder people have been exposed longer to the rare event and can be, convincingly, more resistant to it.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Three: A Mathematical Meditation on History | Distilled Thinking On Your Palm Pilot | Gerontocracy

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