Money and Finance
- 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
“Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one’s profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one’s impulses. Few can grasp the logical consequence...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“…the random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information. If every trial provides you with information about what does not work, you start zooming in on a solution—so every...
- Nassim Taleb Book Review
Nassim Taleb reviews the book Information: The New Language of Science on Amazon: “If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it. A clearly written book, very [intuitive], explains...
Money and Finance
Nassim Taleb quote
“In medicine, we are discovering the healing powers of fasting, as the avoidance of the hormonal rushes that come with the ingestion of food. Hormones convey information to the different parts of our system, and too much of them confuses our biology. Here again, as with news received at too high a frequency, too much information becomes harmful—daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.” –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
“Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one’s profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one’s impulses. Few can grasp the logical consequence...
- Nassim Taleb Quote
“…the random element in trial and error is not quite random, if it is carried out rationally, using error as a source of information. If every trial provides you with information about what does not work, you start zooming in on a solution—so every...
- Nassim Taleb Book Review
Nassim Taleb reviews the book Information: The New Language of Science on Amazon: “If you want an introduction to information theory, and, in a way, probability theory from the real front door, this is it. A clearly written book, very [intuitive], explains...