
Tag: Antifragile
[X] The Implications of Heavy Tailed Distributions

Link to Post on X – https://x.com/nntaleb/status/1904526070193275295
We’ll update this post with the Zoom link as soon as it’s available.
[X] The Shortest Foreword on Antifragile for Two Textbooks

The foreword accompanies the following textbooks:
- Applied Antifragility in Technical Systems: From Principles to Applications
Authors:- Cristian Axenie
- Meisam Akbarzadeh
- Michail A. Makridis
- Matteo Saveriano
- Alexandru Stancu
- Applied Antifragility in Natural Systems: From Principles to Applications
Authors:- Cristian Axenie
- Roman Bauer
- Oliver López Corona
- Jeffrey West
[Twitter | X] Nassim Nicholas Taleb Tweets ‘The Black Swan’ as the Most Influential 21st Century Book
The other 4 books in Taleb’s “Incerto” book series:
- Fooled by Randomness
- The Bed of Procrustes
- Antifragile
- Skin in the Game
On Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Its Mismeasurement
HRV appears to be ill-defined in papers and regressions; using logged variables fixes the problem.
Link to paper – fooledbyrandomnessdotcom.wordpress.com/on-heart-rate-variability-mismeasurement/
Uncertainty, Certainty and what to do when there is Systemic Risk
Third conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Yaneer Bar-Yam about uncertainty, certainty and what to do when there is a systemic risk; what not to do when a truck is headed your way. How acting early would have cost less? They also discuss:
- John Ioannidis recent post “we are making decisions without reliable data”
- Why we should make decisions without reliable data & use precautionary principles
- How the costs would be so much smaller if we would have acted earlier.
Jan 26 Coronavirus Paper (PDF) – Joseph Norman, Yaneer Bar-Yam, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Systemic risk of pandemic via novel pathogens – Coronavirus: A note, New England Complex Systems Institute (January 26, 2020).
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[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).
[Podcast] The B&N Podcast: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) joins us on the #BNPodcast to discuss his latest book SKIN IN THE GAME and his unique point of view on how we make our way in a fundamentally uncertain world: spr.ly/6012DWxFp pic.twitter.com/ptpH03snzK
— Barnes & Noble (@BNBuzz) July 3, 2018
The Motley Fool interviews Nassim Nicholas Taleb


Taleb is a very difficult person to pin down. As Ralph Nader put it last month: “You cannot pigeonhole him!” But I think that introduction to his insight (and foresight) should suffice to convince even those who have never heard of him before that he’s worth listening to.
Taleb is a former trader, a professor at NYU, and the author of several best-sellers including Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, and his just-released Skin in the Game. But perhaps its best to classify him as a “flaneur,” someone who — according to the Oxford Dictionary, “saunters around observing society.”
Also see written article here: https:// www. fool. com/ investing/ 2018/ 04/ 03/ motley- fool- interview- nassim- nicholas- taleb.aspx
The Incerto Is Now Published as a Box Set
The Incerto finally became a single book.
Don’t know when it will be sold. pic.twitter.com/1YUJrb4kFu— NassimNicholasTaleb (@nntaleb) September 24, 2016
Nassim adds, “And the companion volume will be Technical Incerto.”

The Incerto finally became a single book.