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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growing-up good-life role-models
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
inability outliers courses
The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history
banking outcomes negative
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
procrastination fighting exercise
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
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
order pseudo embrace
You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.
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.
fraud ifs
If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
facts obvious
Things always become obvious after the fact