Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Talebis a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work focuses on problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. His 2007 book The Black Swan was described in a review by the Sunday Times as one of the twelve most influential books since World War II...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionScientist
CountryLebanon
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community needs financial
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
pay-the-price risk should
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
medicine track records
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.
feelings metrics shame
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
danger
Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
computer clicks disclosure
Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.
favour owners capitalist
I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
hard-work bmw luck
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
procrastination soul entrapment
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
experience study cherries
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
practice our-world secret
There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
failure pride errors
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.
needs world
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
definitions conversation planets
Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.