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
banking outcomes negative
If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
simple simplicity
Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
technology guy noise
The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
swans black remember
Remember that you are a Black Swan.
remember stills my-own
What I learned on my own I still remember
hurt meditation way
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
civilization risk progress
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.
mirrors looks succeed
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
long way logic
Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.
needs becoming slave
You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
book names race
We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.
thinking should-have lessons
Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.
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.
inability outliers courses
The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history