Nassim Taleb

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

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 118
  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 days ago

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

  
  Leftover Takeout — Authority: 136
  “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 ...
  4 days ago

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

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• My Black Swan

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Nassim Taleb

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 119
  The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
  5 days ago

• Bald Men with Large Brains

  
  Capital is Scarce — Authority: 119
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Get ready for Extremistan

  
  Humble Student of the Markets — Authority: 462
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 118
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Don’t Buy the A-REITs

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  In todays Daily Reckoning, we take a look at what the hedge funds are buying (resource companies) and which corporate insiders are selling. And dont forget! Its GDP and industrial production week in China. What could that mean? Also, five time-bomb property investments to dump now. If you didnt catch yesterdays ...
  3 weeks ago

• Essay Mythologizing: Exploring the Unknown

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 118
  I write. With no end in sight. I simply type, but I never know if I am right. I just feel compelled to type; to write; to set things right. When your modus operandi is negative empiricism --you prefer falsification over confirmation-- the writing life is full of life (hat tip to Dave Lull); its the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Part 2: Interview Series with Aaron Blaisdell of UCLA

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 118
  In the first installment of this fabulous series, I left you hanging on the edge of your seat by ending mid-question-answering, making you itch for more with the epistemocratic Dr. Blaisdell . Well, here you go; on with the show ... KP = Kai Pottenger AB = Aaron Blaisdell KP: In what ...
  4 weeks ago

• Debt Management: Sugars, Livers, & Cash Flows

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 118
  ( Above: My version of Nassim Talebs The Fourth Quadrant ) There are Four Quadrants for Health --the Fourth Quadrant marks the limits of physiology . Your liver is like your physiological bank account. Its a good thing to keep healthy. You want to keep some residual cash on hand at all times; ...
  4 weeks ago

• quick macro update

  
  The Center of the Universe — Authority: 434
  [ Skip to the end ] Market functioning has finally returned, helped by the Fed slowly getting around to where it should have been even before all this started- lending unsecured to its banks, setting its target rate and letting quantity adjust to demand. It’s not technically lending unsecured, but instead went ...
  7 weeks ago

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