Tag: Taleb
Good Question
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 MoreMarkets and Morality
“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 MoreBureaucracy
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 MoreJournalists
“Journalists worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than the judgment of their readers.” Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game... Read MoreWhat is an Adventure
“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 MoreEnding Suicide Bombing
“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 MoreSkin 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 his books and in each one I’ve learned actionable new things. I just f... Read More- 2 of 2
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