I don’t know that it’s a helpful distinction. A lot of people do it all - drive, walk, bike, and take public transit. Only in this kind of discussion do I see people declaring it a team you have to choose.
how do you account for the compilation of your insight that was formed through the consumption of many prior examples? do you feel compelled to thoroughly cite them, or have they crossed a threshold marked through your ability to now generate new similar things without directly referencing them that it's "all original you" now?
If you're writing an academic/research paper, you still have to find something to cite.
"I know this stuff, just trust me" isn't a valid citation. The point is to give anyone who reads the paper a way to a) verify that each fact you put in the paper has solid academic sourcing, and b) find more information about it if they wish.
If you know a lot of stuff about the topic already, that's great—but unless you've already written and published papers on the subject, you can't just cite yourself.
Yeah there's some grey area there I guess. But it took me quite a while as a student to understand that I needed to cite sources even if I was "using my own words" and not quoting passages verbatim.
Certainly there are styles and broad arcs that many creations follow that are not directly attributable to a specific source.
When a strongly capitalized minority cohort can sustain positions that are untenable for normal market participants, they can act as a kingmaker by shaping outcomes at the margin.
The point isn't to just cover the tax bill, it's that by shifting the burden up the class ladder, there is more capital available to the classes that spend and circulate their money in the economy rather than merely accumulate it
In a way it almost seems good? It seems like opportunistic capital that takes flight so easily probably wasn't seriously integrated into the local economy anyway.
Spiritually different intention, but both yield lots of unread material at hand. The parent's is "bought with best intentions" but letting it pile up despite that intention, Taleb's is purposefully accumulating material that you don't intend to read unless a future you finds it helpful to explore that book
This is what I do. When I see a free PDF that seems well written, or was suggested to me, I save it in the bucket “maybe someday I might need that” but l know I will 99% never read. My experience is that it is useful. At least 10 books that were deep in that bucket were useful for me, and ended reading them. I must have 10000 though.
Not necessarily. Ours would work down the list of numbers she had for me, my wife, and other emergency contacts without leaving a message. My wife got pulled out of a meeting at work once despite me being the parent at home because I missed a call from the school and they didn't bother to leave a message.
They might not.. But you'd very likely have their number saved on your phone. Might even have them as an un-mutable contact. My wife/kids and their school are all on the "never mute" list.
> But you'd very likely have their number saved on your phone.
I certainly don't. Every call I get from the school seems to come from a different number. And the camp she was at when she hurt her leg and had to be taken for immediate medical attention.
I get it, in your world, in your experience, it all works out. But in mine, it just doesn't. From experience, I _know_ this is true.
How much of it can you mount on a wall? Wall mounted artifacts and art require trivial maintenance effort and don't clutter up the floor, while honoring those objects and making them visible and enjoyable.
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