It was published Jan. 9, 2013 In his global bestseller The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that rare, unpredictable events have the greatest impact on our lives—and that our blindness to these random events has a price. Now he returns with Antifragile, a bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, [...]
“If you cannot use randomness and disorder and variability and volatility as fuel, you won’t make it in the long run.” Nassim Taleb on Icahn/Ackman: ‘They’re Only Human’Monday, 28 January 2013 10:08 AM ETNassim Taleb, author of “Antifragile” and “The Black Swan,” shares his outlook for the U.S. economy, investment strategies and his thoughts on [...]
Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Antifragile: Things That Gain from DisorderRecorded 11/29/2012Listen to MP3 audio Illustrious researcher and Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. With a command of subjects [...]
What a treat. A full hour of NNT discussing Antifragile. Audio Only
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Nassim-Taleb-Business-Daily-20121219 Nassim Taleb is famous as the scourge of economists, statisticians and bankers. This former trader turned writer forecast the banking collapse in his bestselling book The Black Swan. He also made a fortune betting it would happen. Now he’s written a new book, Antifragile, which he says is a guide to life in this [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Antifragile.mp3 (Right click to download) December 7, 2012 9:34 AM Radical philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers a blueprint for how to live – and thrive – in a world we don’t understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to predict. Or subscribe (iTunes etc) to their RSS feed: RSA Events: Audio.
Saturday, December 8, 2012
This is the best I’ve heard so far on the book tour. NNT is the first guest after the intro. Interesting to hear what he has to say about looking out for the weak. Will be very interested to hear if that came up in his Brooklyn talk with Russ Roberts (which I’m on the [...]
Listen at LSEDownload(Right Click, Save)AudioSpeakers: Professor Nassim Nicholas TalebRecorded on 5 December 2012 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building. Taleb believes that many of the best and most successful systems in the world such as evolution have antifragility at their heart. Conversely, those systems which reject antifragility and suppress volatility such as modern politics [...]
The link below will take you to an audio player where you can hear the Dec 3, 2012 interview with NNT. It’s the first half hour of the show. “The Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses his latest work “Antifragile” and how we can thrive in a world controlled by randomness. via Audio Player [...]
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (links to all three WNYC interviews!) explains how to thrive in an uncertain world. In his new book, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The book spans innovation by trial and [...]
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Downing Street guru Downing Street’s favourite intellectual is Nassim Nicolas Taleb, author of the best selling book The Black Swan. Janan Ganesh of The Economist investigates his appeal.Mon, 12 Mar 12Download: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/analysis/analysis_20120312-2100a.mp3Podcast home: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/analysis
I’ve been waiting for this! Nassim Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about antifragility, the concept behind Taleb’s next book, a work in progress. Taleb talks about how we can cope with our ignorance and uncertainty in a complex world. Topics covered include health, finance, [...]
Saturday, December 3, 2011
The Predictability of Unpredictability 1st Dec 2011; 18:00 Listen to the audio (full recording including audience Q&A) Please right-click link and choose “Save Link As…” to download audio file onto your computer. Download Nassim Taleb’s presentation (pdf) RSA Keynote Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the brilliant and controversial author of The Black Swan, described in the [...]
Mark Blyth, the co-author of NNT’s recent Foreign Affairs article, was interviewed by Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source. Click arrow to play audio. Mark Blyth, The Black Swan of Cairo.
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Taleb: The events in the Middle East are not black swans. They were predictable to those who know the region well. At most, they were gray swans or perhaps white swans. One of the lessons of “Wild vs. Mild Random…
Names Not Numbers Symposium An annual thought leadership symposium. Multimedia Fragility, Complexity & Society (mp3) Talk with Q&A Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Former Trader and Author of ‘The Black Swan’ Q&A moderated by Matthew Taylor, RSA
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Audio from the BBC. Intelligence Symposium in Portmeirion, with Oceanographer sylvia Earle and painter, poet Frieda Hughes. HatTip to Dave Lull.
Lebanese- American Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’….
Saturday, February 19, 2011
It’s much better to mistake a stone for a bear, than a bear for a stone. (Click arrow to play audio) Nassim Taleb ManagemenTV.mp3
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You can see the entire talk here. Here’s the audio NNT’s portion of the panel. Click arrow to listen. NNT at The Russia Forum 2011.
Friday, December 24, 2010
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Links to BBC radio interview with NNT. HatTip to Dave Lull.
The intellectual guru Nassim Taleb has published
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In May, Nassim Taleb Tweeted, “Mandelbrot’s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces”
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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NASSIM TALEB: The governments have transformed private debt into public debt. Now, that’s not something very commendable, because your grandchildren — and I know you have grandchildren — your grandchildren and their children will bear the price. This is immoral.
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Click arrow to listen Christopher Lydon / Nassim Taleb telephone interview. Link to source and synopsis. 3. On bailouts: My analogy is to the gambler who is now gambling with the trust fund of his unborn great-great-granchildren… Prudence should be the first thing on the agenda of governments, not speculation. Stimulus packages are speculation… [...]
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