{"id":14,"date":"2009-11-12T02:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T10:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/9b047ad3a8c540f6"},"modified":"2009-11-12T02:11:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T10:11:16","slug":"gladwell-dot-com-blowing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/gladwell-dot-com-blowing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"gladwell dot com &#8211; blowing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom April, 2002 Fun read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was just one problem, however, and it is the key to understanding the strange path that Nassim Taleb has chosen, and the position he now holds as Wall Street&#8217;s principal dissident. Despite his envy and admiration, he did not want to be Victor Niederhoffer &#8212; not then, not now, and not even for a moment in between. For when he looked around him, at the books and the tennis court and the folk art on the walls &#8212; when he contemplated the countless millions that Niederhoffer had made over the years &#8212; he could not escape the thought that it might all have been the result of sheer, dumb luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>From April, 2002 Fun read.<br \/>\nThere was just one problem, however, and it is the key to understanding the strange path that Nassim Taleb has chosen, and the position he now holds as Wall Street&#8217;s principal dissident. Despite his envy an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}