Hammurabi’s Code
“If a builder builds a house and the house collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house— the builder...
Tag: Taleb
Good Question
How do candidates for political office with obvious character flaws seem more real than bureaucrats with impeccable...
Markets and Morality
"It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan)...
Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her...
Tell Me
Don’t tell me what you “think,” just tell me what’s in your portfolio. Nassim Taleb in Skin in the...
Journalists
"Journalists worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than the judgment of their...
What is an Adventure
"If you do not undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is not...
Ending Suicide Bombing
"The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up...
Skin in the Game
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...
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