Download Link – https://www.academia.edu/41743064/Systemic…
Nassim Taleb keynoting the launch of the Makridakis Open Forecasting Center on January 21st at University of Nicosia
Reservation Link – https://mofc.unic.ac.cy/mofc-2020-rsvp/
What to expect from the 2020s: the world’s big thinkers make their predictions
Link to full article: Thetimes.co.uk
[Podcast] The Beirut Banyan EPISODE 81: Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Local Solutions for Lebanon
Nassim joins Episode 81 of The Beirut Banyan and they discuss the October 17 Revolution and Lebanon’s modern history within the context of complex systems and local structures.
[YouTube] Localism and its Application to Lebanon – Lebanese American University New York Academic Center and Headquarters
In a pop-up seminar held at the Lebanese American University New York Academic Center and Headquarters on the 7th of November 2019, Nassim discusses the recent protests happening in Lebanon and the idea of localism being a viable solution for the country.
Foreword to Carlo M. Cipolla’s The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
‘A classic’ – Simon Kuper, Financial Times
The five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.
Since time immemorial, a powerful dark force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world’s most powerful boardrooms to your local pub. This is the immensely powerful force of human stupidity.
Seeing the shambolic state of human affairs, and sensing the dark force at work behind it, Carlo M. Cipolla, the late, noted professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley, created a vitally important economic model that would allow us to detect, know and neutralise this threat: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.
If you’ve ever found yourself despairing at the ubiquity of stupidity among even the most ‘intellectual’ of people, then this hilarious, timely and slightly alarming little book is for you. Arm yourself in the face of baffling political realities, unreasonable colleagues or the unbridled misery of Christmas day with the in-laws with the first and only economic model for stupidity.
[YouTube] Nassim’s interview with Mahmoud Rasmi of Bel Lebnene about the Current Lebanese Political and Economic Situation
Nassim talks about the current Lebanese economic and political situation (With English Subtitles).
[YouTube] How to be Sufficiently Paranoid – 2018 Prime Quadrant Conference
Nassim gave a talk at the 2018 Prime Quadrant Conference in Toronto, titled “How to be Sufficiently Paranoid.”
[YouTube] Nassim’s interview with Katrine Marçal of EFN about his book “Skin in the Game”
Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb interviewed about his book Skin in the Game by author and journalist Katrine Marçal. Taleb explains the concepts of Skin in the Game and Soul in the Game. He also talks about rationality and honour. Taleb is not a fan of economists Paul Krugman, Richard Thaler and behavioural economics. In this interview, he explains why.
[YouTube] Nassim Taleb Lecture: Don’t be fooled! The truth about science technology education and wealth
In this fantastic lecture at the end of August 2019 at the WorldSkills Conference in Kazan, Russia, he addressed some very interesting points:
✅ The importance of trial and error for the development of technology.
✅ Theory does not allow interaction with uncertainty.
✅ Theoretical knowledge is inferior to the knowledge gained from experience.
✅ We get smarter when we perform, not just when we sit and think.
✅ People who use trial-and-error are more successful than those who just dedicate themselves to designing, writing formulas, and reasoning in theory.
✅ Businesses that make small, cheap mistakes can end up making a mistake that will make them big.
✅ People involved in technology do not write books. The books are written by teachers. But the real heroes didn’t come from the academic world, they didn’t have time to discuss what they were doing.
✅ Do not try to teach birds to fly. The world does not develop from top to bottom.
✅ Industrial Revolution and Cybernetics did not come from academia and science but from people without formal study.
✅ Formal education does not generate wealth for countries.
✅ First, they must get rich and only then invest in this type of education (If you care about Brazil!)
✅ South Korea and Switzerland first became rich with the technical skills of their people and later invested in formal education.