Q: The new edition of The Black Swan includes what you call “10 principles for a Black-Swan robust society.” One of them is: “Citizens should not depend on financial assets as a repository of value and should not rely on fallible ‘expert’ advice for th…
"극히 예외적이며 알려지지도 않았고 또 가장 가능성 없어 보였던 블랙 스완에 의해 세상은 지배된다." (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
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The Business InsiderWhy The New Fetish For “Black Swan Insurance” Means Markets Are BEGGING For …The Business InsiderPIMCO is the latest to launch a Black Swan product, though of course it’s Mr. Black Swan himself Nassim Taleb who has been at this th…
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132- Life’s Barbells
(Barbells are more robust than monomodal strategies.)
Walk most of the time, sprint as fast as you can on the occasion; never jog.
Fast for long periods of famine, then feast; never diet.
Endo…
My rule from now on: I never give a talk unless Lebanese wine is served.
The point is that the collective (the mob) very often does not have the ethics of the individuals –some people are ethical on their own and unethical collectively (“he is doing it”). We see that in finance, but it is prevalent in academia.”do not foll…
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs) wants you generic to the point of castration.
True love is the complete victory of the particular of the universal –anything else is vitiated by some element of opportunism.
My book of aphorisms is coming out soon … So I am removing them from twitter. Twitter proved near-useless.
Discovery Invest will once again bring to South Africa some of the world’s most impressive business minds, to share their secrets and insights. Click on the thumbnail images below to view the full profiles of the Discovery Invest Leadership Summit sp…
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THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $14.95.) How and why certain products and ideas become fads.)
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FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen …
It nearly came 2 fisticuffs @ #Politics&Prose Thurs.when N.Taleb called academics schmucks.Yelling & profanity ensued.Will CSpan air fight?
What separates Taleb from the “enlightened ones” is his aggressive activism that lets him bash the highest authority of any given domain such as presidents, lawmakers, bankers, philosophers, scientists, mathematicians, professors, economists and…
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