“What fools call “wasting time” is most often the best investment.”

—  Nassim Nicholas Taleb , book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 24

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