{"id":5558,"date":"2013-02-17T23:42:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2013-02-17T23:42:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T07:42:30","slug":"nassim-taleb-is-hosting-a-book-party-upcoming-events-at-book-culture-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/nassim-taleb-is-hosting-a-book-party-upcoming-events-at-book-culture-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb is hosting a book party &#8211; Upcoming Events at Book Culture NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>On Tuesday, February 26th at 7pm Nassim Taleb is hosting a book party.<\/p>\n<p>Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader before starting a full-time career as a scholar of applied probability and risk management. Taleb&#8217;s current program is to build rules of decision-making under incomplete information and understanding, and to make political and economic systems robust to Black Swan problems. In his groundbreaking and prophetic book, Black Swan, Taleb shows in a playful way that black swan events explain almost everything about our world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/campaign.r20.constantcontact.com\/render?llr=c4nm85dab&amp;v=001XqiOmN3J1DAoiGu0auz6TwE2gj-e1ZiOmgamQjOhiDYTiD0U9pAcyYKP-fv7iLTBGzIhWla1k0Z648qykRHOMiL_VRVEWXM0BPTRDsviCGNQPdOXtvetNL0fEAASe1-27MVLRYGZwOPEKTA_G-3imQ%3D%3D\">Upcoming Events at Book Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, February 26th at 7pm Nassim Taleb is hosting a book party. Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader before starting a full-time career as a scholar of applied probability and risk management. Taleb&#8217;s current program is to build rules of decision-making under incomplete information and understanding, and to make political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","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=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}