Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Those who ask for pity are rarely those who would feel it for others. via Those who ask for… | Facebook.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:5.0 out of 5 stars charming and motivating, January 28, 2012By: N N Taleb “Nassim N Taleb” This review is from: Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (Kindle Edition) A charming primer on the paleo idea, with an illustration through the authors [...]
More follow-up from NNT’s recent Stevens Institute talk.HatTip to Dave Lull. Here’s a quote from the prologue of Antifragility, which should give you a sense of Taleb’s substance and style: “This book is about how to domesticate, even dominate, even conquer, the impenetrable, the unseen, the non-understood, the opaque, the perplexing, and the inexplicable. Wind [...]
A complaint is the expression of the relative weakness of the complainer. via A complaint is the… | Facebook.
The first, and hardest, step to wisdom: avert the standard assumption that people know what they want. (via negativa). via The first, and… | Facebook.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
About a recent NNT talk. I hope there’s audio. HatTip to Dave Lull. “The Triad” is Taleb’s system to categorize entities as fragile, robust, or anti-fragile. Some basic examples follow: debt would be considered fragile; equity, robust; and venture capital equity, anti-fragile. A nation-state would be considered fragile, while a city-state would be considered anti-fragile. [...]
You can figure out people by their use of the word “important”. via You can figure out… | Facebook.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
(Please avoid posting links (except if extremely necessary). Please say what you have to say directly. Assume you are having a conversation with others. Thanks). via (Please avoid… | Facebook.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
People, when they get richer, are punished by having to live their lives as if they were managing a corporation. via People, when they… | Facebook.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
CORRECTION The notion of “achievement” *devalues* life into a tournament. (Modernity) via CORRECTION The… | Facebook.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The notion of “achievement” transforms life into a tournament.Modernity via The notion of… | Facebook.
NOTICE: I have nothing against politics, I just feel queasy seing political discussions invading this page and, even more nauseating, getting mail from journalists, or, worse, political journalists. So PLEASE no discussions about the presidential or other campaigns here. Thanks. via NOTICE: I have… | Facebook.
Ron Paul’s 2012 campaign just got an endorsement from Nassim Taleb. Sort of. When asked his opinion on Ron Paul, Taleb, on his Facebook page, wrote “the only candidate I trust is Ron Paul.” Taleb, however, seems to be more interested in philosophy than politics. “I do not wish to be dragged into politics beyond [...]
Friends, thanks (will use both barbell and bimodal). How about the nonbarbell class: Quasi-mercenary class, proto-prostitute class, protomercenary class. Is mercenary or prostitute a fitting designation? x…x Class: An economic condition of making more than minimum wage and wishing for more wealth. Workers, monks, hippies, some artists, and English aristocrats escape it. The middle class [...]
I wonder if I should rename the “barbell” strategy “bimodal”. via I wonder if I… | Facebook.
Chapter 7 Recall from Chapter x that I believe that education is mostly what make individuals more polished dinner partners. The British government documents, as early as fifty years ago, present another aim for education than the one we have today: raising values, making good citizens, and “the intrinsic value of learning”, not economic growth. [...]
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Not sure if this is new, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. New book title and approx. release date. Antifragility, Sept 2012, Random House (US) & Penguin (UK) via Nassim N. Taleb Home & Professional Page.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
The Illusion of Thin-Tails Under Aggregation Nassim Nicholas Taleb NYU-Poly George A. Martin affiliation not provided to SSRN January, 18 2012 Abstract: It is assumed that while portfolio theory fails with daily returns, that it would work with yearly returns, an standard argument recently repeated in Treynor (2011). This paper debunks the confusion that daily [...]
Saturday, January 21, 2012
An enemy who becomes a friend will always be a friend; a friend turned enemy will remain so forever. via An enemy who… | Facebook.
That’s next Tuesday! In New Jersey. Hope they record it! HatTip to Dave Lull. DeBaun Auditorium 6 PM A talk by Nassim Taleb. Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 6-7:30. DeBaun Auditorium. A professor of risk engineering at New York University, Taleb argued in his 2007 blockbuster The Black Swan that unpredictable events, “black swans,” have a [...]
Frances Beinecke writes, Over the past several weeks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been in the news for its stance on antibiotic use in farm animals. Yet instead of making good on its 1977 promise to limit these drugs in livestock, the agency is moving in the opposite direction. The latest developments reveal [...]
Corporate & academic life makes you the agent of metastatic emailing. via Corporate &… | Facebook.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
A whisper is more interesting than shouts, the hidden more appealing than the advertized, & the insinuated more convincing than the proclaimed. via A whisper is more… | Facebook.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
People reveal much more about themselves while lying. via People reveal much… | Facebook.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
A thousand cowards are no better than a single coward. Collectively, weak dwarfs are stronger than a giant -collaboration. Yet a single brave is worth more than an entire crowd. via A thousand cowards… | Facebook.
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