Nassim Taleb

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• Recession is Over, Welcome Back to the Depression

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  One turkey turns to the other... "Things were pretty rough there for a while...what with the recession and all. But now theres a recovery. Business is picking up." "Yeah, this is great...no more hanging around this place waiting...finally, the boss says were all shipping out today..." "I wonder what were going to ...
  2 days ago

• Quantum Mechanics

  
  DealFatigue — Authority: 107
  Despite all of the self-help books preaching the contrary, people have a hard time living outside the moment. So, it’s difficult for them, let alone a whole industry to shake the mindset that the current ecology of the business will continue to be bleak forever. But this sour economy is just a part of a normal ...
  1 week ago

• Making the Unseen Seen: We all can be scientists in the art of self-experimenting

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 117
  Scientists seek the unknown : they venture into the unlit, unexplored caverns of our world by conducting experiments to learn more about how the universe, including all of its inhabitants, works or doesnt work. They map out the complex, uncertain landscapes of our ecosystems based on the results from those trials. ...
  1 week ago

• Follow that igon value!

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 508
  Perhaps fittingly, the first use of "igon value" was in a profile of (then obscure) hedge fund philosopher Nassim Taleb. (See earlier post Pinker on Gladwell .) New Yorker, April 22 & 29, 2002 : [this version retreived from gladwell.com] ... As the day came to an end, Taleb and his team turned their attention ...
  1 week ago

• Quantum Mechanics

  
  DealFatigue — Authority: 107
  Despite all of the self-help books preaching the contrary, people have a hard time living outside the moment. So, it’s difficult for them, let alone a whole industry to shake the mindset that the current ecology of the business will continue to be bleak forever. But this sour economy is just a part of a normal ...
  1 week ago

• Black Swan Health Policy: Whats in a Domain?

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 117
  Whats in a domain (name)? Hopefully, a bit of Black Swan health policy . Of course, I know its a dream; a dream to make the unseen seen . But I do own a domain (thanks to Navanit Arakeri ) -- AncestralFitness.com -- that Id like to build out iteratively, without any deadlines or rigidity, in order to ...
  1 week ago

• Thinkering: A New Model for Biotechnology

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 117
  Theres a Biomedical Mutual Organization (BMO) taking shape. I suspect William Baines and Seth Roberts would agree. It may still be in the start-up stages, but its building momentum as we speak. I envision, perceive, and actively participate in (thankfully and luckily) an intriguing and innovative ...
  2 weeks ago

• n=1 Self-Experimentation Positioning: How to Not be Fooled by Randomness

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 117
  Living in a world that we dont understand is a humbling, human endeavor. The history of science and the history of medicine teach us that causation is murky, at best, and that things often work for reasons that we dont understand. People have been tackling this conundrum for many years, in various ways, and there ...
  2 weeks ago

• "I was in Korea last week with a collection of suit-wearing hotshots. On a panel sat Takatoshi Kato,..."

  
  Leftover Takeout — Authority: 432
  “I was in Korea last week with a collection of suit-wearing hotshots. On a panel sat Takatoshi Kato, IMF Deputy Managing Director. Before the discussion he gave us a powerpoint lecture showing the IMF projections for 2010, 2011, …, 2014. I could not control myself and got into a state of rage. I told the audience ...
  3 weeks ago

• Historically, the Only Reserve a Central Bank Can Trust is Gold

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  After spending a week trying to figure out how to run a wilderness ranch here in Argentina...and a few days with our old cowboy friends, Doug Casey, Rick Rule and Porter Stansberry...were back in Buenos Aires. Were back in civilization... Wait...you call this civilization? Looks more like Bubble Land again! Gold is ...
  3 weeks ago

• My Black Swan

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 124
  I bought a farm. I bought a farm located in an area that receives about 18 inches of rain per year. The year that I bought the farm we received about 1 inch of rain. A neighbor of mine who had lived in the area for over 80 years told me this was the driest year he had ever seen. This was my black swan. I was ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nassim Taleb

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 124
  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
  3 weeks ago

• Bald Men with Large Brains

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 124
  If you are serious about this business of trading, or investing, you must watch this. If youre really serious you should watch it twice. (you have to click on the watch full progarm icon) My formal education is very limited; however my experience and "informal" education is quite vast. I find that combination ...
  3 weeks ago

• Get ready for Extremistan

  
  Humble Student of the Markets — Authority: 506
  Nicholas Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan , has been talking about the states of Mediocristan and Extremistan . The two concepts has been described as follows : "Mediocristan" and "Extremistan" are two world domains. In the former, extremes exist but are inconsequential, in the latter, extremes are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Proverbial Knowledge: Clinical Wisdom in the Art of Living as a Patient of One

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 117
  An epistemocrat is a Patient of One clinician in the practice of n=1 philosophy, in the bricolage (and meritage) of self-experiments (clinical trials) with lifestyle design and m=1 my-thology . Its ancestral, proverbial knowledge in the clinical practice of leading lives (not careers): taking general ...
  4 weeks ago

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