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Via Negativa

Taleb defines Via Negativa as:

The principle that we know what is wrong with more clarity than what is right, and that knowledge grows by subtraction. Also, it is easier to know that something is wrong than to find the fix. Actions that remove are more robust than those that add because addition may have unseen, complicated feedback loops.

Real world application

Rather than focusing on what projects you should take on, focus on saying no to the ones you shouldn’t

Instead of looking what content you can add to the website, look at what content you don’t need on the website

I have used all my life a wonderfully simple heuristic: charlatans are recognisable in that they will give you positive advice, and only positive advice, exploiting our gullibility and sucker-proneness for recipes that hit you in a flash as just obvious, then evaporate later as you forget them.

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