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• The Economy is Like a Complex Ecosystem

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 522
  Most people in finance operate under a giant self-deception: they think future economic trends are much more knowable than they actually are. The economy is like a complex ecosystem. You cannot alter one piece of it without causing effects elsewhere in the system. Investors who understand this reality can also ...
  15 hours ago

• The Effect is Not What’s Intended

  
  The Committee of Public Safety — Authority: 491
  Paul K. Van Riper In Adam Elkus’s excellent article Operational Art and Modern American Strategy , he referenced this article by retired U.S. Marine lieutenant general Paul K. Van Riper entitled EBO: There Was No Baby in the Bathwater . Van Riper, the hero of the Millennium Challenge wargame in 2002, is ...
  2 days ago

• Go for those nickels!

  
  Hedge Hub — Authority: 130
  The hard lessons learnt from the credit crisis might suggest investors shouldn’t be trying to pick up the proverbial nickels on a railway track. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor In a blog post in May I pointed to research by Yale academic Hongjun Yan that hedge fund managers are far more likely to choice so-called ...
  5 days ago

• Taleb and his book Fooled by Randomness

  
  SanjayJohn.com — Authority: 99
  Nassim Taleb as I have mentioned earlier is one of the smartest human beings in the world right now. His book Fooled by Randomness is probably going to be one of the few books which people will read after 200 years, like Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations or Darwins "The Origin of Species". In showing us how we often ...
  5 days ago

• Part 4: Interview Series with Aaron Blaisdell of UCLA

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 411
  ( Above: Janss Steps at UCLA--a great place for sprints!) Finally, the much anticipated Grand Finale of the excellent interview series with Dr. Aaron Blaisdell , Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) . Part I & Part II & Part III KP = Kai Pottenger AB ...
  1 week ago

• Real Estate: Banks, Dubai And The Black Swan

  
  The Commercial Real Estate HandBlog — Authority: 103
  Greetings from New Mexico…. I found out today that New Mexico is not LAST in everything.  We are first is DWIs as well as the first state to adopt a Real Estate Recovery Fund…which has now been adopted by most states.  So…yes…we do have pride in being first….or maybe we have pride in being last? ...
  1 week ago

• Quote of the Day

  
  tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com — Authority: 139
  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 week ago

• Quote of the Day

  
  Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate — Authority: 433
  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 week ago

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

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 741
  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, ...
  2 weeks 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, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Recession is Over, Welcome Back to the Depression

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 522
  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 weeks ago

• Dominoes Through the Generations

  
  The Committee of Public Safety — Authority: 491
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Quantum Mechanics

  
  DealFatigue — Authority: 106
  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 ...
  3 weeks 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. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Follow that igon value!

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 460
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Quantum Mechanics

  
  DealFatigue — Authority: 106
  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 ...
  4 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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