Money and Finance
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- Santangel's Review On The Book "dream Big"
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- Rolf Dobelli Quote (survivorship Bias)
“Survivorship bias can become especially pernicious when you become a member of the “winning” team. Even if your success stems from pure coincidence, you’ll discover similarities with other winners and be tempted to mark these as “success factors.”...
- News Is Bad For You – And Giving Up Reading It Will Make You Happier – By Rolf Dobelli
News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. The solution? Stop consuming it altogether …………….. Related previous posts: Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet - By Rolf...
- Amazon's Kindle 2 Slims Down, Adds Audio
New York – A little more than a year after the Kindle made its debut, Amazon announced a new, updated version of its popular e-book reader Monday with a big endorsement from Stephen King. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos demonstrated the features of the new...
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Nassim Taleb withdraws endorsement of Rolf Dobelli
Withdrawal of endorsements/testimonials and apologies to my readers: I owe my readers an apology for endorsing a man based on limited information. I have known Dobelli for a while and never read him as his work was in German. I was under the impression that he was writing a book on cognitive biases from a novelist's point of view... I trusted what he said I gave him an endorsement thinking he would do a good job as a novelist (I was careful to endorse the person, not the book). I also introduced him to my agent and pushed for his book to be published. But I was completely shocked when, after I got a copy of the book at his New York book party, I opened the English version of the book. I saw passages from my work transcribed, examples rapidly copied, with small modifications... not a novelist's approach. Sadly, it took a decade to discover the nature of a man whose works I had never read.
Then I googled "via negativa" and saw he rewrote sections of my manuscript in Zeit without attribution. So I withdraw all comments made about him, his work, and, of course, his ethics. And I resign from Zurich Minds, Berlin Minds, and all other think tanks Dobelli asked me to join.
This seems to be the beginning. It appears that there are 5 unreferenced passages from Chabris and Simon's The Invisible Gorilla.
- 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...
- Santangel's Review On The Book "dream Big"
Link to: Book Review and Lessons From Dream Big: A Glimpse Inside the Strategies and Tactics of 3G CapitalThis book has long been on my list to read, but unfortunately it had only been published in Portuguese. Last week an English version was released...
- Rolf Dobelli Quote (survivorship Bias)
“Survivorship bias can become especially pernicious when you become a member of the “winning” team. Even if your success stems from pure coincidence, you’ll discover similarities with other winners and be tempted to mark these as “success factors.”...
- News Is Bad For You – And Giving Up Reading It Will Make You Happier – By Rolf Dobelli
News is bad for your health. It leads to fear and aggression, and hinders your creativity and ability to think deeply. The solution? Stop consuming it altogether …………….. Related previous posts: Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet - By Rolf...
- Amazon's Kindle 2 Slims Down, Adds Audio
New York – A little more than a year after the Kindle made its debut, Amazon announced a new, updated version of its popular e-book reader Monday with a big endorsement from Stephen King. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos demonstrated the features of the new...