{"id":5189,"date":"2012-12-06T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2012-12-06T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:34:37","slug":"nassim-taleb-is-annoying-but-antifragile-is-still-worth-reading-cross-check-scientific-american-blog-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/nassim-taleb-is-annoying-but-antifragile-is-still-worth-reading-cross-check-scientific-american-blog-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb Is Annoying, but \u201cAntifragile\u201d Is Still Worth Reading | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>In short, Taleb resists categorization. If I had to pigeonhole him, I\u2019d call him an anti-guru guru. That is, he mercilessly bashes other gurus, pundits and prophets and warns you not to fall for them. He depicts himself as a brave, lonely truth-teller in a world of fools and frauds. In so doing, he becomes a guru himself, with a cult-like following. Many gurus\u2014from Socrates to Jiddu Krishnamurti, one of the most successful gurus of the 1960s\u2014have successfully employed this anti-guru schtick.<\/p>\n<p>Like Taleb\u2019s 2007 bestseller The Black Swan, Antifragile brims with bluster, mean-spirited diatribes and chest-thumping self-congratulation. I nonetheless recommend it, because the book is entertaining and provocative in the best sense. That is, even if you question what Taleb is saying\u2014and you certainly should\u2014he forces you to examine your own biases and assumptions. Yes, he can be irritating, but so are many of our most original thinkers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/cross-check\/2012\/12\/05\/nassim-taleb-is-annoying-but-antifragile-is-still-worth-reading\/\">Nassim Taleb Is Annoying, but \u201cAntifragile\u201d Is Still Worth Reading | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short, Taleb resists categorization. If I had to pigeonhole him, I\u2019d call him an anti-guru guru. That is, he mercilessly bashes other gurus, pundits and prophets and warns you not to fall for them. He depicts himself as a brave, lonely truth-teller in a world of fools and frauds. In so doing, he becomes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484],"tags":[365],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","tag-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","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=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5191,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}