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Tag: Taleb

Hammurabi’s Code

Posted on September 24, 2018September 20, 2018 by Simon
“If a builder builds a house and the house collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house— the builder shall be put to death.” Hammurabi’s Code From Skin in the Game by Nassim Ta... Read More

Good Question

Posted on September 17, 2018September 6, 2018 by Simon
How do candidates for political office with obvious character flaws seem more real than bureaucrats with impeccable credentials? Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game And, I might add, make such terrible a... Read More

Markets and Morality

Posted on September 10, 2018August 18, 2018 by Simon
“It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan) in a hut or cave isolated from it.” Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game... Read More

Bureaucracy

Posted on September 3, 2018August 17, 2018 by Simon
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions. Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game... Read More

Tell Me

Posted on August 27, 2018August 17, 2018 by Simon
Don’t tell me what you “think,” just tell me what’s in your portfolio. Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game... Read More

Journalists

Posted on August 13, 2018July 21, 2018 by Simon
“Journalists worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than the judgment of their readers.” Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game... Read More

What is an Adventure

Posted on August 6, 2018July 13, 2018 by Simon
“If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not an adventure.” Nassim Taleb Skin in the Game... Read More

Ending Suicide Bombing

Posted on July 9, 2018June 19, 2018 by Simon
“The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up is not the worst-case scenario for them, nor the end scenario at all. Maki... Read More

Skin in the Game

Posted on July 2, 2018June 19, 2018 by Simon
Back in 2002 I read Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb and became a fan of his writing. Since then I’ve read all of his books and in each one I’ve learned actionable new things. I just f... Read More
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