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
leadership senior people
Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
information opinion weak
When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
swans black remember
Remember that you are a Black Swan.
remember stills my-own
What I learned on my own I still remember
technology differences slavery
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
trying rats normal
If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.
nice arrogant action
Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice, being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
mistake light information
A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.
taken past decision
If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could, over your lifetime, you would realize that almost all of them have had asymmetric payoff, with one side carrying a larger consequence than the other. You decide principally based on fragility, not probability. Or to rephrase, You decide principally based on fragility, not so much on True/False.
resilience get-better resilient
Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.
knowledge ideas ties
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously.
faces association social
Every social association that is not face-to-face is injurious to your health.
resilience thanks sissy
We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
ornaments weakness shows
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.