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Antifragile

Comfort With Discomfort

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 04.26.2013 | Impact
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Dylan Ratigan

On my trip across the country last summer -- having fled the news desk for a life of promoting kale, veterans, and kale-growing veterans -- I carried what I fervently believe to be a very important book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Antifragile.

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Silence of the Poets: Writers and Antidepressants

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 03.28.2013 | Books
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Andrew Shaffer

It's an exercise in futility to try to hypothesize what effect antidepressants would have had on long-gone writers like Poe and Baudelaire. Whether you function or not is a more pertinent question than whether or not antidepressants or substance abuse "silences the soul."

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Mark Gongloff

Jamie Dimon: My Bank Thrives On Your Pain

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.27.2013 | Business
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Like most soft-spined Americans, you probably have painful memories of the financial crisis and consequent recession. Perhaps you even think of those ...

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