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
failing late ifs
If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.
experience study cherries
Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
outcomes lasts execution
Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.
failure pride errors
Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.
emotion stoicism elimination
Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
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.
risk illusion randomness
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
waste unusual ambiguous
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .
needs world
In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
reading book unread-books
Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.
ifs-and narrative dictatorship
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.
people quality hobbies
My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know....
succeed bears doe
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
smart thinking dumb
Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.