In ancient Athens more than two thousand years ago, Greek philosopher Socrates was put on trial. He was charged on two accounts. First with disobeying the Gods and also with corrupting the youth of Athens. Plato is a student and follower of Socrates and the trial is well documented in his work ‘Apology’. If all these sounds greek (geddit?) to you, just know that Socrates was one heck of a chap. Some accounts paint him to be pompous and insufferable, a flaneur unable to hold down a proper job. Others picture him a maverick, one who goes around asking pointed questions in order to derive the truth (and getting under people’s skin in the process). Yet another version puts him as highly learned and introspective, thinking way ahead of his time and contemporaries. If it still does nothing for you, imagine Nassim Taleb doing his thing clad in a toga. ......