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• Quote of the Day

  
  tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com — Authority: 138
  I just recently finished reading Nassim Taleb’s book, “The Black Swan” and found it very insightful.   I’m not saying that I agree with everything he says or even with his assessment of Bernanke.     I do, however, agree with him on the irresponsibility of the Senators in Washington.    Government ...
  1 hour ago

• Quote of the Day

  
  Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate — Authority: 432
  I just recently finished reading Nassim Taleb’s book, “The Black Swan” and found it very insightful.   I’m not saying that I agree with everything he says or even with his assessment of Bernanke.     I do, however, agree with him on the irresponsibility of the Senators in Washington.    Government ...
  8 hours ago

• Nassim Taleb Protests Bernanke Reappointment By Going Into Self-Appointed Exile

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  And so economists begin their protest against the perpetuation of the farce that is US economics, and the madman in charge of the USS Titanic - Ben Bernanke. Nassim Taleb has decided to go into exile courtesy of the imminent reappointment of the man who not only caused the near destruction of the financial system, ...
  1 day ago

• The Primal Blueprint: An Epistemocratic Map for Health Decision Making

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 411
  Maps matter. Especially in cognitive psychology (thanks to Dave Lull). In practice, cognitive maps for decision making dont tell you where to go or how to navigate in every specific case or at every point in time; instead, they provide sign posts, indicators of contours and textures, notes about landscapes, ...
  4 days ago

• Recession is Over, Welcome Back to the Depression

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 549
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Dominoes Through the Generations

  
  The Committee of Public Safety — Authority: 487
  I’ve been following Kotare’s examination of the Generations of War (4GW) framework over at The Strategist : On the bullshit of “generations of war” Roots – the origin of “generations of war” “We few, we happy few, we band of [1GW] brothers” “Cohorts of War” – a general framework ...
  1 week ago

• Quantum Mechanics

  
  DealFatigue — Authority: 104
  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: 411
  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. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Follow that igon value!

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 487
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quantum Mechanics

  
  DealFatigue — Authority: 104
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Black Swan Health Policy: Whats in a Domain?

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 411
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thinkering: A New Model for Biotechnology

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 411
  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

• Senegalese Authorities Deport Mauritanian Terror Suspect

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Senegalese authorities have deported back to Nouakchott the Mauritanian citizen Taleb Ould Ahmednah. Ould Ahmednah is accused of being a member of the Al Qaeda wing in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI). He was arrested two months ago in Dakar where he was questioned by local authorities about his false papers. In the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Taleb Group of Companies

  
  Business. Event. Classified. UAE 2010 — Authority: 452
  Incorporated in 1955,  The Taleb Group of Companies completes 50 years of operations. The Group first ventured into the field of Real Estate at a time when the country was transforming itself from the traditional pearl industry to the emerging oil & gas, the industry of the new era. Now with the group’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sending the Christmas card to Noah !! :-)

  
  LG15 Today — Authority: 445
  Origins: Noah Biorkman is a 5-year-old boy who was diagnosed with Stage IV neuroblastoma in February 2007. Although he went into remission in August 2007, his family says, in September 2008 Noah "relapsed with lesions in his right arm and right leg," and "after going through six different trials, the cancer ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 411
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Against the backdrop of the evolution of media and its powerful gathering of news material and data,..."

  
  Leftover Takeout — Authority: 432
  “Against the backdrop of the evolution of media and its powerful gathering of news material and data, all of the world’s happenings are trimmed like a lawn by a mower, with fragments of information flying about from place to place through the media as grass flies through the air. These broken pieces of information ...
  3 weeks ago

• Yousef Abu-Taleb opens an Eqal Umbrella

  
  LG15 Today — Authority: 445
  JOIN: http://www.youabu.com Other web sites available on Eqals Umbrella software: http://www.jackinaonesie.com http://www.hotandretarded.com http://www.kijubigirls.com/ http://www.musicmatterseth.com http://www.lastereo.tv/ http://try-it.eqal.com/ http://www.tarynoneill.com/ ...
  3 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: 549
  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

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