{"id":2527,"date":"2010-12-05T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T06:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/21f1431c5cb35599"},"modified":"2010-12-05T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T06:00:38","slug":"145-minutes-with-nassim-taleb-new-york-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/145-minutes-with-nassim-taleb-new-york-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"145 Minutes With Nassim Taleb &#8212; New York Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHatTip to Dave Lull!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\" title=\"Share This\"><\/a>\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nymag.com\/news\/intelligencer\/encounter\/encounter101213_250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\" height=\"375\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" width=\"250\">\n<div>\n<div>(Photo: Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span>H<\/span>alfway into our conversation, Nassim Taleb\u2019s gray-bearded Levantine face tightens. \u201cIf I talk about finance, it corrupts my whole day,\u201d he protests. \u201cDon\u2019t corrupt my day.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve strayed from a topic Taleb is eager to discuss to one he is anxious to flee. We are here in this French caf\u00e9 in Morningside Heights to talk about Socrates, Seneca, Averro\u00ebs, Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein. These are his forebears in the art of the aphorism, a form he took up for several months earlier this year, resulting in his new book, <em>The Bed of Procrustes<\/em>, a compendium of Talebian witticisms and skeptical philosophizing: \u201cYou are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.\u201d \u201cEducation makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.\u201d \u201cYou are only secure if you can lose your fortune without the additional insult of having to become humble.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>HatTip to Dave Lull!<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Andreas Rentz\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>\tHalfway into our conversation, Nassim Taleb\u2019s gray-bearded Levan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}