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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Businessmen angry for losing money tend to get angrier when you tell them that “it’s only money”.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Businessmen angry for losing money tend to get angrier when you tell them that “it’s only money”. via Businessmen angry for losing money tend to get… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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Logical clarity is like a musical ear: no money can buy it…

Friday, August 22, 2014

Logical clarity is like a musical ear: no money can buy it, no amount of education can increase it and no sophistication can compensate for its absence. via Logical clarity is like a musical ear: no money… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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Watch Nassim Taleb debate Twitter’s greatest tech jargon parody account.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

What the world needs now is a Twitter fight among Nassim Taleb (the pretentious author of The Black Swan), Prof Jeff Jarvis (the parody of new media evangelists staged by Rurik Bradbury), and the real Jeff Jarvis (the Web guru who proves how far you can get with lots of jargon and few results). What […]

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I now have a new job (well, sort of)…

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

I now have a new job (well, sort of). Starting the new academic year with a function, co-director and co-founder of the EXTREME RISK INITIATIVE, which should develop into an Extreme Risk Institute within NYU School of Engineering. The initiative will include a collection of collaborators. Co-director Charles Tapiero. OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION In spite of the […]

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Finally, our Precautionary Principle-GMO paper…

Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Finally, our Precautionary Principle-GMO paper is done. It establishes the difference between precaution and risk aversion. Comments welcome, but only for those who have read the paper and do not rehash fallacies addressed in it. t.co/XRcCMHWi9L   via Finally, our Precautionary Principle-GMO paper… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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