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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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, [...]
Hormesis Is Redundancy Nature is the master statistician and probabilist. It follows a certain logic based on layers of redundancies, as a central risk-management approach. Nature builds with extra spare parts (two kidneys), and extra capacity in many, many things (say lungs, neural system, arterial apparatus, etc.), while design by humans tend to be spare, [...]
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe author of the best-selling 2007 book “The Black Swan,” Nassim Nicholas Taleb said last June that the U.S.’s debt situation was worse than that of Greece. “The difference between Europe and the U.S. is the consciousness of the problem,” Taleb said in September. He warned the world’s predicament is more dire than [...]
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent. via It is much harder… | Facebook.
Friday, December 30, 2011
You cannot be truly free if you have a specialty. via You cannot be truly… | Facebook.
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
The second column (skin in the game) includes citizens, merchants, businessmen, artisans, entrepreneurs, lab and field experimenters, city-state government, writers, speculators, crusading journalists, activists, traders and his character “Fat Tony” who is always practical. He says, “Do not fly in a plane without the pilot aboard.” (Predator drones risk no lives — just a lot [...]
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Just because the phrase ‘stand-up economist’ is a new one. Also, let’s not forget the stand-up economist coming to Chicago next month. “A monstrosity that turns scientists and thinkers into low-level entertainers” — that’s how statistician Nassim Taleb described the worldwide “TEDTalks” in his recent book, “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” [...]
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