How this term is used here In this channel's material, Bed of Procrustes refers to Nassim Taleb's book of aphorisms — a collection of short, distilled observations. It appears in the context of exploring how writer David Perell folds AI into his reading and writing practice: he uses ChatGPT as a partner for self-understanding, strategy, and reading old books, and Taleb's aphoristic style is part of the territory he explores when mining short-form wisdom for anecdotes and ideas.