{"id":1638,"date":"2019-01-02T10:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2019-01-02T10:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T15:27:18","slug":"nassim-nicholas-taleb-on-the-antilibrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2019\/1638\/quotes\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-on-the-antilibrary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb: On the antilibrary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. [Your] library should contain&nbsp;<em>as much of what you do not know&nbsp;<\/em>as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an&nbsp;<em>antilibrary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. [Your] library should contain&nbsp;as much of what you do not know&nbsp;as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2019\/1638\/quotes\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-on-the-antilibrary\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[295,229,338],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-libraries-are-awesome","tag-on-libraries","tag-the-value-of-libraries","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}