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.
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.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Nassim Taleb asks: Is there a wiki editor here? Is there a way to block a mad & obsessive stalker from vandalizing a bio?
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 [...]
Saturday, December 4, 2010
The Black Swan author’s latest, The Bed of Procrustes, is a book of aphorisms. Nassim Taleb will now take your questions.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,695031278001_0,00.html#ixzz17BeHeqlJ
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Some clever kids nabbed some off-the-cuff comments from Bernanke.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
International Monetary Fund, Sept 16, 2010, Washington, DC, General Lecture (morning) and Technical Workshop (afternoon) on how to detect tail-fragility.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of The Black Swan. He is at work on a paper called “Why Did the Crisis of 2008 Happen?”
“The captain goes down with the ship…”
Time to realize that capitalism is …