{"id":4987,"date":"2012-11-18T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4987"},"modified":"2012-11-18T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T23:00:59","slug":"nassim-nicholas-taleb-hes-come-back-to-scare-us-again-the-sunday-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/nassim-nicholas-taleb-hes-come-back-to-scare-us-again-the-sunday-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Nicholas Taleb: He\u2019s come back to scare us again | The Sunday Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More paywall teasers today. Perhaps NNT will publish a pdf to his site (which he often does).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For a thinker who reckons we all need a bit of randomness in life to make us stronger, Nassim Nicholas Taleb is surprisingly bothered that his usual table in his usual restaurant in Brooklyn is occupied.<\/p>\n<p>Taleb\u2019s obvious irritation does not seem a good start for an interview with a man who has little time for journalists, as he believes they misinterpret his work or \u201cinsert their own noise\u201d in what he is trying to say.<\/p>\n<p>He has already brushed off the Sunday Times photographer, telling him he doesn\u2019t want to be photographed as \u201cI am not a public intellectual\u201d, and if he must then not with any New York backdrop or prop as \u201cthat would be fake, acting\u201d, nor in his office at New York University as \u201cthat\u2019s private&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/newsreview\/features\/article1164672.ece\">Nassim Nicholas Taleb: He\u2019s come back to scare us again | The Sunday Times<\/a>.<br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More paywall teasers today. Perhaps NNT will publish a pdf to his site (which he often does). For a thinker who reckons we all need a bit of randomness in life to make us stronger, Nassim Nicholas Taleb is surprisingly bothered that his usual table in his usual restaurant in Brooklyn is occupied. Taleb\u2019s obvious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","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=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4990,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}