The Incerto, which comprises Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, and Antifragile, is now available on Amazon as a box set.
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Nassim to Visit Moscow and Kiev
The brokerage firm Alpari sponsors two seminars featuring Nassim, titled “Black Swan: predicting and winning in a world of chaos”, that will take place in Kiev, Ukraine on October 10th, and in Moscow on the 12th.
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.”
Nassim’s Commencement Speech to the American University in Beirut
Nassim discussed definitions of success and his own life journey in this commencement speech at the American University in Beirut. The full text of the speech, published on Nassim’s home page, is available below.
Noah Smith: BS Operator
Nassim has gone to the trouble of adding a page to his own site to outline “breaches of journalistic ethics and logic” in Noah Smith’s Bloomberg View article on The Black Swan called “Everyone Worries Too Much About Black Swan Events.” Nassim calls the page “Noah Smith, BS operator.”
Genealogy of the Black Swan Problem
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Nassim At the Jaipur Literary Festival
Nassim, introduced by Abhimanyu Radhakrishnan, gives a talk called “Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” at the Jaipur Literary Festival.
What the Black Swan Problem Is and Is Not
Nassim shares Chapter 1 of his work-in-progress, Silent Risk, which explains what the Black Swan problem is and is not. He comments that it is “still incomplete, but useful.”
From his Facebook Page.
Taleb around the Web
» Property Soul, Notes from a Singapore property investor writes Six reasons why property is not an antifragile investment after meeting Nassim at his recent talk there.
» Zero Hedge talks Antifragility on Prepared? When Ebola hits your town you will want to be antifragile.
» Nouriel Roubini on CNBC reveals his black swan scenarios.
» Business Insider names Nassim one of The 25 Most Successful Wharton Business School Graduates.
» Antifragility explored when applied to raising children on Why Parents Inadvertently Hinder The Success Of Their Children on Forbes.
» Lorin Hochstein discusses the fragile side of cloud software concluding the “future of cloud software is systems that fail much less often, but much harder” on Cloud software, fragility and Air France 447.
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[PODCAST] The Wharton School: Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans (2011)
Knowledge@Wharton: Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans
Nassim Taleb is a literary essayist, hedge fund manager, derivatives trader and professor of risk engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University. But he is best known these days as the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. During a recent visit to Wharton as part of The Goldstone Forum, he spoke with Wharton finance professor Richard Herring — who taught Taleb when he was a Wharton MBA student — about events in the Middle East, the oil supply, investing in options, the U.S. economy, the dollar, health care and of course, black swans.