{"id":5312,"date":"2012-12-17T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2012-12-17T13:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:22:00","slug":"this-is-not-a-profile-of-nassim-taleb-the-chronicle-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/this-is-not-a-profile-of-nassim-taleb-the-chronicle-review\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Not a Profile of Nassim Taleb &#8211; The Chronicle Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>I had lunch with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It didn&#8217;t go well.<\/p>\n<p>We met at a French cafe in Manhattan, on the Upper West Side, not far from Columbia University. It was a meeting more than a year in the making. I first e-mailed him when his book of aphorisms, The Bed of Procrustes, was published to see if he might submit to an interview. This, I realized, was a long shot. Taleb, best known as the author of The Black Swan, a book about how we underestimate the improbable, isn&#8217;t much for interviews and regards most journalists as fools and phonies, right alongside professional academics and bureaucrats. I didn&#8217;t expect to hear back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/This-Is-Not-a-Profile-of\/136257\/\">This Is Not a Profile of Nassim Taleb &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had lunch with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It didn&#8217;t go well. We met at a French cafe in Manhattan, on the Upper West Side, not far from Columbia University. It was a meeting more than a year in the making. I first e-mailed him when his book of aphorisms, The Bed of Procrustes, was published [&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":[622],"class_list":["post-5312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","tag-tom-bartlett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312","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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}