{"id":5359,"date":"2012-12-25T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2012-12-25T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T00:01:26","slug":"antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb-arts-the-boston-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder-by-nassim-nicholas-taleb-arts-the-boston-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder\u2019 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb &#8211; Arts &#8211; The Boston Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Taleb has a very important role in a society where it isn\u2019t always easy to tell science from pseudoscience \u2014 even at the university level. There is so much dogma passing as \u201cobjective truth\u201d in the sciences, and there are so many so-called forecasters who get things wrong over and over again without being held accountable, that a noodge like Taleb can greatly guide us toward a closer understanding of how things work. And \u201cAntifragile\u2019\u2019 does have some useful, original ideas. It\u2019s just that sometimes Taleb seems more interested in being a provocateur than in exercising the rigor he advocates so forcefully.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/2012\/12\/25\/book-review-antifragile-things-that-gain-from-disorder-nassim-nicholas-taleb\/7TDUto3ZOI3dKr1veIfCNK\/story.html\">Book review: \u2018Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder\u2019 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb &#8211; Arts &#8211; The Boston Globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taleb has a very important role in a society where it isn\u2019t always easy to tell science from pseudoscience \u2014 even at the university level. There is so much dogma passing as \u201cobjective truth\u201d in the sciences, and there are so many so-called forecasters who get things wrong over and over again without being held [&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-5359","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\/5359","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=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}