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
quality fragility vulnerable
Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
moving water car
I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.
new-york order fragility
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.
humility marketing surprise
true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing
book bird problem
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
thinking world patterns
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
vision special blind
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
country promise corporations
In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations
people suffering would-be
For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.
interesting dating people
What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.
art mind sensitive
The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist
nerd definitions aphorism
My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism
loss sarcasm mind
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally.
wise smart school
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.