Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The podcast of this talk is now live! How Things Gain from Disorder Friends, presenting Book IV of Antifragile at Stanford, 4:30, Open to the Public. Focus on Optionality/Convexity, or why you’d rather be antifragile and dumb than robust and educated & why they built cathedrals without knowledge of Euclidian geometry…. http://stvp.stanford.edu/blog/?page_id=1277 (Friends of the [...]
In this lecture sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Taleb will discuss hiw work on uncertainty, randomness, and disorder. When: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, from 1 to 3 p.m. Where: Alumni Auditorium, Room H-110, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.) , Sir George [...]
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Next Tueday (Feb 26), book party at the most intellectual bookstore in America (I am inviting; wine will be served). http://site.booksite.com/6665/events/?&list=EVC1&group=current&preview=1 via Next Tueday (Feb… | Facebook.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
On Tuesday, February 26th at 7pm Nassim Taleb is hosting a book party. Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader before starting a full-time career as a scholar of applied probability and risk management. Taleb’s current program is to build rules of decision-making under incomplete information and understanding, and to make political [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This is an audio player from NYPL Live. (Perhaps it will turn into a video player later.) The conversation took place at the New York Public Library February 5, 2013. You can also download the audio here. SOLD OUT! How do we — as individuals and as communities — make decisions when faced with uncertainty, [...]
Nassim Taleb Discussing/Signing His New Title: Antifragile Things That Gain From Disorder Business Author Breakfast: Nassim Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became a scholar and philosophical essayist. Bestselling titles include Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. His works focus on what to do in a world we don’t understand. Friday February 08, [...]
Wow, NNT and Danny Kahneman together again! (These are generally open to the public; corporate lectures are usually excluded from this list) 2013 Yale University, Feb 11 New York Public Library, Feb 5, Conversation with Daniel Kahneman Continuing Book Tour: Barnes and Noble, Feb 8, 8AM; Book Culture (near Columbia U.) Feb 28 National Science [...]
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Friends, for the Friday lecture in Oxford, we had to change venue to the largest one, the Sheldonian (capacity 1,000). There are a few seats left (27). This talk will be different from others, as I will integrate fractal richness in the texture of life. http://btlecture.eventbrite.co.uk/ BT Centre Lecture to be given by Nassim N. [...]
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
VIA NEGATIVA: “A 2000 page legistation is fragile; a ten page one is robust; removing a harmful legislation is antifragile.” Anonymous person at my lecture yesterdayAlso: “Increasing happiness if fragile, decreasing known sources of unhappiness is antifragile.” A footnote in Antifragile, based on the mafia expression “I have a pebble in my shoe I want [...]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Friends, I understand why book tours should be every 5 3/4 years. Next week:Monday Dec 3 Washington DC Politics and Prose, Wednesday Dec 5 London, LSE; Thursday Dec 6 London, RSA http://www.politics-prose.com/event http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2012/12/20121205t1830vSZT.aspxhttp://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/antifragile via Friends, I… | Facebook.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Hello from LondonAnyone going to DUNBO Brooklyn on Wed?http://powerhousearena.com/newsletters/121128/ Book Launch: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Wednesday, November 28, 7–9 PMWhy is Calculus 103 easier than Calculus 101? Why is email a constant low-grade stress on our lives? Why do more pedestrians die in cross walks than in other [...]
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 7–9 PM The powerHouse Arena · 37 Main Street (corner of Water & Main St.) · DUMBO, Brooklyn For more information, please call 718.666.3049 TICKETS $15 International bestseller Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan) drops by powerHouse Arena to celebrate the launch of Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder: a look at how [...]
Saturday, November 17, 2012
LONDON NOV 26. When someone asked me who I want to interview me, my answer was “a fireman”. Reason: they understand risk, incompleteness, and decision. Alternatively, someone who takes risk and has scars from it. Well, it turned out that my first reviewer was a pro-athlete obsessed with randomness. I invited him to interview me [...]
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Union League Club of Chicago 65 West Jackson BoulevardChicago, IL 60611$65Join us for a discussion with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, on his new book Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. In The Black Swan, Taleb outlined a problem; and in Antifragile, [...]
That’s a tight schedule. He’s back in NY for an event on the 27th! Join 5×15 and Penguin Books for an unmissable event in Islington’s Union Chapel on Monday 26 November when they welcome one of the world’s most eminent thinkers to the stage. In conversation with journalist Bryan Appleyard, Taleb will explain in his [...]
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder Meet the Writers Tuesday November 27, 2012 7:00 PM Union Square33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-253-0810 Add to Calendar via Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder at Barnes & Noble – Union Square, New York NY.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Let the book tour begin! And you know that means lots of new audio coming as well.HatTip to Dave Lull Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder In his global bestseller The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that rare, unpredictable events (“black swans”) have the greatest impact on our lives – and that our blindness [...]
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Let the book tour begin! HatTip to Dave Lull. Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Bryan Appleyard Nov 26Mon Union Chapel London, GB 19:00 via Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Bryan Appleyard tickets, dates. Official Ticketmaster site..
NNT and Danny Kahneman are at the Hay Festival (UK) this weekend! Nassim Nicholas Taleb Event 117 • Sunday 3 June 2012, 4pm • Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage AntiFragility The visionary probability guru and Black Swan author previews his study of How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand. Price: £6.25 Sponsored [...]
A breakup of the euro “is not a big deal,” Taleb said yesterday at an event in Montreal hosted by the Alternative Investment Management Association. “When they break it up, there will be a lot of fun currencies. This is why I am not afraid of Europe, or investing in Europe. I’m afraid of the [...]
NNT spoke at Hedgework in Frankfurt on May 8, 2012.More pictures at the Hedgework site. Manche Systeme seien zerbrechlicher, andere weniger. „Wenn Sie ein Wasserglas tausend Mal aus fünf Millimeter Höhe auf den Boden fallen lassen, wird es dies mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit überstehen“, sagte Taleb am Mittwochabend bei einem Vortrag vor dem Diskussionskreis für alternative [...]
Economic Recovery: Perils, Politics and Possibilities Click Video to watch larger version on YT. About Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International AffairsThe Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University seeks to prepare its students for careers in public service, to provide them with the analytic tools and practical experience necessary [...]
I must be slacking. I knew this event was scheduled but I hadn’t seen the video until today! ZURICH.MINDS 2011, Antifragility. Talk with Rolf Dobelli
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Reader Jonc wrote with a report from the recent Princeton lecture. He graciously allowed me to reprint his letter here: Dear John I attended the event with South Jersey artist Nancy Jackson.. The audio visual gremlins normally present were not at this presentation of NNT’s concept of Antifragility… they were at both the Stevens and [...]
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
No sign of a recording as of yet. Will post as soon as one comes available. Taleb opened his lecture with a question: “What is the opposite of fragile?” After a few attempted answers from the audience, Taleb explained that there is no antonym for fragile in common English. He introduced the term “antifragile” as [...]
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