Thursday, January 12, 2012
I reported NNT’s RSA talk and pdf notes back in December, 2011 . The YouTube video just became available.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Link to Source (My notes) The banks have made 2.2 trillion over the last 2 years. Salary plus bonuses. It is a tax on citizens. Bailout scheme, since Reagan.You need something to break the bank cartel. Federal Reserve policy is there to help the banks. Last year they had record bonuses.The ONLY valuable information you [...]
Saturday, August 20, 2011
BBC Newsnight Friday 19th Aug 2011 Audio only NNT interview starts at 4:57
NNT spoke earlier this year at the Goldstone Forum at the University of PA.
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HatTip to Dave Lull!
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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Tagged anti fragility, fragility, hormesis, long volatility, phoenix, robustify, subtractive treatment, sucker non-sucker, The Bed of Procrustes
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NNT on Charlie Rose, tomorrow, Feb. 22 2011. Will post links to interview as it becomes available.
Nassim Taleb
with
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
on Feb 22, 2011
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Tagged anti fragility, aphorisms, Bed of Procrustes, bernanke, charlie rose, David Cameron, debt to equity, long walks, On Robustness and Fragility, risk, weimar republic
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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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Tagged allow for wrong forecast, avoid losing money, forecasting, how to domesticate randomness, how to live in a world we don't understand, lack of knowledge, mediocristan, positive Extremistan, seeing patterns where there's none, Tinkering
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Flanerie a Bruxelles en pensant a Jacques Brelhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzAmrNS164Jacques Brel – “Amsterdam” livewww.youtube.comThis is an incredible performance of “Amsterdam” by singer Jacques Brel. Try not to get chills watching this.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
As part of the Deloitte Innovation Growth Track program in the Netherlands, we have eight inspiring sessions on different themes with top speakers. For each session, we give Deloitte employees the opportunity to ask a question to one of the speakers.