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.
Longtime reader and tipster David Lemus has a new book out.Here’s a quote: “So the statistics presented as the bell curve can at most work in one world. What polemic philosopher Nassim N. Taleb has called Mediocristan and Extremistan, the former domain is where statistics can be apply to physical measurements with miniscule margin of [...]
Sunday, December 12, 2010
The Sunday Time’s Robert Collins wrote a review of The Bed of Procrustes. It’s behind a paywall but NNT was kind enough to make it available from his site. Here’s a direct pdf download link. And thanks to Dave Lull for letting me know. Here’s an excerpt: The likes of Facebook, though, get his epistemological [...]
Thursday, December 9, 2010
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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical AphorismsAuthor EventThursday January 13, 2011 7:00 PMUnion Square33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-253-0810Invite a FriendAdd to …
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Nassim Taleb’s book of aphorisms is now shipping at Amazon. The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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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This title was released on May 11, 2010. Order Here. I’m on my third reading, not to mention having listened to the audio book twice, so I wasn’t sure about getting the second edition. But in his Hard Problems talk, NNT mentions having become obsessed with robustness, and that accounting for the additional 100 pages… [...]