Money and Finance
“Evolution does not rely on narratives, humans do. Evolution does not need a word for the color blue.” –Nassim Taleb, Antifragile
- James Altucher Interviews Nassim Taleb
Link to: Ep. 45 Nassim Taleb: Why You Should Embrace Uncertainty This week, Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about technology and how different systems handle disorder. Just...
- Nassim Taleb On The Modern Stoic Sage
“Seen this way, Stoicism is about the domestication, not necessarily the elimination, of emotions. It is not about turning humans into vegetables. My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information,...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“What makes life simple is that the robust and antifragile don’t have to have as accurate a comprehension of the world as the fragile—and they do not need forecasting.” –Nassim Taleb, Antifragile ...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“Political and economic “tail events” are unpredictable, and their probabilities are not scientifically measurable. No matter how many dollars are spent on research, predicting revolutions is not the same as counting cards; humans will never...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“Instead of a discussion of risk (which is both predictive and sissy) I advocate the notion of fragility, which is not predictive—and, unlike risk, has an interesting word that can describe its functional opposite, the nonsissy concept of antifragility.”...
Money and Finance
Nassim Taleb quote
“Evolution does not rely on narratives, humans do. Evolution does not need a word for the color blue.” –Nassim Taleb, Antifragile
- James Altucher Interviews Nassim Taleb
Link to: Ep. 45 Nassim Taleb: Why You Should Embrace Uncertainty This week, Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, joins The James Altucher Show to talk about technology and how different systems handle disorder. Just...
- Nassim Taleb On The Modern Stoic Sage
“Seen this way, Stoicism is about the domestication, not necessarily the elimination, of emotions. It is not about turning humans into vegetables. My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information,...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“What makes life simple is that the robust and antifragile don’t have to have as accurate a comprehension of the world as the fragile—and they do not need forecasting.” –Nassim Taleb, Antifragile ...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“Political and economic “tail events” are unpredictable, and their probabilities are not scientifically measurable. No matter how many dollars are spent on research, predicting revolutions is not the same as counting cards; humans will never...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“Instead of a discussion of risk (which is both predictive and sissy) I advocate the notion of fragility, which is not predictive—and, unlike risk, has an interesting word that can describe its functional opposite, the nonsissy concept of antifragility.”...