{"id":6421,"date":"2013-12-13T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T07:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=6421"},"modified":"2013-12-13T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T07:24:21","slug":"getting-close-to-finishing-the-first-draft-of-fat-tails-and-asymmetries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/getting-close-to-finishing-the-first-draft-of-fat-tails-and-asymmetries\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting close to finishing the first draft of&#8230; &#8220;Fat Tails and Asymmetries&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Getting close to finishing the first draft of the book. Changed the title to &#8220;Fat Tails and Asymmetries&#8221;. Wrote a preamble.And the central message:&#8221; It is better to take risks you understand than to try to understand risks you are taking.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/FatTails.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/FatTails.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Questions: There are two options, 1 academic publisher , 2 staying at Random House &amp; Penguin. The MS will remain free on the web in both situations. The academic route requires academic reviewers, etc., much less the other. Any pros and cons of either?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for comments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151899292293375&amp;id=13012333374\">Getting close to finishing the first draft of&#8230; &#8211; Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting close to finishing the first draft of the book. Changed the title to &#8220;Fat Tails and Asymmetries&#8221;. Wrote a preamble.And the central message:&#8221; It is better to take risks you understand than to try to understand risks you are taking.&#8221; http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/FatTails.html Questions: There are two options, 1 academic publisher , 2 staying at Random [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[701],"class_list":["post-6421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","tag-textbook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421","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=6421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6421\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}