The short: I enjoyed the book and found it hard to put down. It challenged some of my thinking and changed the way that I look at things.
What I didn't like: the book was very inefficient; he could have conveyed the same message in about 1/…
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of The Black Swan, an extended edition of which is published in May by Penguin.
Be a gentleman on the treadmillNassim Nicholas Taleb
Does having a job make you a phony? Well, it…
Thursday, August 26, 2010
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/77206/dating-advice-swf-loves-sebald-seeks-same-in-manRuth Franklin Explores The Literary Dating Website, Alikewise.com. | The New Republicwww.tnr.comThe New Republic covers politics, culture, and the arts with…
Thursday, August 26, 2010
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/26/stemNews: Questioning Value of Science Degrees – Inside Higher Edwww.insidehighered.comInternational study doubts correlation between increasing number of STEM graduates and economic growth, while findi…
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HatTip to Dave Lull WSJ is behind a paywall unless you search for the story and connect to it through Google. For now.
Prof. Nassim Nicholas Taleb was in his native northern Lebanon last week, thinking about instability in the pricin…
Just as no monkey is as attractive as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators.
At this point I think it would be helpful to illuminate what I’ve been doing both in reaction to the economic data and to be proactive to what I think is still to come. As you may have read already on my Portfolio page, I do employ black swan prote…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of The Black Swan. He is at work on a paper called “Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?”
“The captain goes down with the ship…”
Time to realize that capitalism is …
Thursday, August 19, 2010
It’s true Nassim Taleb (author of “The Black Swan”) recommends a “barbell” approach for most investors when allocating their capital. What this equates to is putting 80-90% of your funds into very conservative instruments, such as cash, and…
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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Here’s the latest Planet Money Deep Read — o…
Saturday, August 14, 2010
HatTip to Dave Lull. Since aphorisms lose their charm whenever explained, I only hint to the reader the main subject of this book, which corresponds to the central theme of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, though rephrased in an aphoristic style — fooledbyrandomness.com/aphorisms.pdf
Saturday, August 14, 2010
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Fortunately or not, I don’t have a lot to wager with, but I wouldn’t be too quick to discount Taleb’s advice.
” ‘Every single human being’ should bet US treasury bonds will decline”
– Nassim Taleb (Author of “The Black Swan”) on Feb…
Thursday, August 12, 2010
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We met Christopher when he wrote about his Black Swan Protection Protocol http://austrianschool.blogspot.com/2010/02/black-swan-protection-protocol-approach.html He’s recently launched a new site and has more market-centric NNT rela…
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I expect to have a conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, in the next couple of days. He’s a very smart and talkative fellow, and I suspect he would fit into …
My definition of an erudite is subtractive: someone who displays and cites, in writing and conversation, much less than he knows.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb. DRAFT. Summary of Causes: The interplay of the following five forces, all linked to the misperception and hiding of …www.fooledbyrandomness.com/crisis.pdf
Tell me if you understand the problem in its full simplicity: former regulators and public officials who were employed by the citizens to represent their best interests can use the expertise and contacts acquired on the job to benefit from glitches in …
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