{"id":4886,"date":"2012-10-30T14:59:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2012-10-30T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T21:59:59","slug":"nassim-nicholas-taleb-speaking-in-san-francisco-dec-11-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-speaking-in-san-francisco-dec-11-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb Speaking in San Francisco Dec 11, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let the book tour begin! And you know that means lots of new audio coming as well.<br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull<\/p>\n<div class=\"program_image\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"mediamaid\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jccsf.org\/assets\/1469\/original\/taleb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"program_description\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><em>Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his global bestseller <em>The Black Swan<\/em>, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that rare, unpredictable events (\u201cblack swans\u201d) have the greatest impact on our lives \u2013 and that our blindness to these random events has a price. Now he returns with <em>Antifragile<\/em>, a bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error as an antidote to our fragile way of life, instead of trying to avoid mistakes and collapsing when catastrophe strikes (see 2008). It may just change our lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hottest thinker in the world.&#8221;<br \/> \u2013 <em>London Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"> Standard:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $25\u00a0| Members $20\u00a0| Students $15<br \/>Premium*:\u00a0 $45 | Members $40<br \/>*A copy of <em>Antifragile<\/em> is included in Premium ticket price.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"program_schedule_info\">\n<div class=\"meeting_time_block\">\n<p>Tuesday, Dec 11<\/p>\n<p>Starts at: 7:00 pm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 220px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.jccsf.org\/public\/loader.asp?target=hall.asp?event=2159\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jccsf.org\/assets\/381\/original\/blue_box.gif\" alt=\"Purchase Tickets Online\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jccsf.org\/arts-ideas\/lectures\/history-current-affairs\/nassim-nicholas-taleb\/\">JCCSF &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let the book tour begin! And you know that means lots of new audio coming as well.HatTip to Dave Lull Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder In his global bestseller The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that rare, unpredictable events (\u201cblack swans\u201d) have the greatest impact on our lives \u2013 and that our blindness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragility-2","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","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=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}