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Ep30 - Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Skin in the Game

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The Risks of Being a Roman Emperor

The ancients were conscious of it. They understood scaling. You have e visual, the family, or whatever is defined as a tribe. And then you go up the layers, and that works a lot better because the tribes deal with one another. The dynamicsof tribes dealing with one another need to mirror the same cemetery it looks like. Ocase, the ancientsknew that. So this is the idea of scaling. Tito be the scaling. The game changes.

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