{"id":5816,"date":"2013-06-09T17:07:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T00:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5816"},"modified":"2013-06-09T17:07:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T00:07:34","slug":"the-inventory-nassim-nicholas-taleb-ft-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/the-inventory-nassim-nicholas-taleb-ft-com\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inventory: Nassim Nicholas Taleb &#8211; FT.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong>What ambitions do you still have?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To complete a multi-volume mathematical expression of the ideas of the more philosophical works, with rigorous derivations and proofs. Volume one is complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What drives you on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want to put my works under one title, Incerto, in 10 volumes \u2013 six philosophical and four mathematical \u2013 so people can grasp it all as a single piece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the greatest achievement of your life so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve learnt to never compromise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been your greatest disappointment?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That I am unable to destroy the economics establishment, the press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If your 20-year-old self could see you now, what would he think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That I am not ashamed to be judged by my 20-year-old self. I swerved on occasion but ultimately stayed in line with what he wanted me to be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/d538a45a-4871-11e2-a1c0-00144feab49a.html#axzz2VZeMOULZ\">The Inventory: Nassim Nicholas Taleb &#8211; FT.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What ambitions do you still have? To complete a multi-volume mathematical expression of the ideas of the more philosophical works, with rigorous derivations and proofs. Volume one is complete. What drives you on? I want to put my works under one title, Incerto, in 10 volumes \u2013 six philosophical and four mathematical \u2013 so people [&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":[725,724],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors","tag-ft-magazine","tag-ft-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","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=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}