"Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance." – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself." – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"The problem with experts is that they do not know what they do not know." – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Cool tweet from Nassim Taleb about russian economy

Who I consider to be the 3 most important contemporary philosophers

A presentation on Nassim Nicholas Taleb and his ideas on risk and uncertainty

Unsere Sprache schränkt uns im Denken ein! So versuchen wir, fragile, zerbrechliche Systeme so robust wie möglich zu gestalten, obwohl sie auch mehr als nur robust sein könnten. Die deutsche Sprache hat

Weekends are usually quiet times for cryptomarkets, even during spectacular bull runs like this one. But today might be different because someone took the trouble of creating what might be major FUD with

I'm a big fan of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and have read and/or listened to several of his books. I was reading his book, "Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder" this time last year. Influenced

3 výroky o kryptu vám pokaždé představí zajímavé a především pak různorodé příspěvky a myšlenky lidí. Můžete se zde setkat s kritikou i chválou. Tentokrát tu máme některé ostřejší výroky, jeden z nich

I am quite sure that some of you have heard (or even read) about the book "The Black Swan" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It's a great book about the impact of very rare events (=black swan) that

"There are routes to success that are non-random, but few, very few, people have the mental stamina to follow them." Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness. David Hurley #InspiredFocus

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the book "Black Swan", advised Lebanon citizens to use cryptocurrency. The banks in Lebanon is limiting access to foreign money. This is a difficult situation

I do not need a mask if everyone else is wearing one @NNTaleb

This simple inability to remember not the true sequence of events but a reconstructed one will make history appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was - or is @NNTaleb

It is the rigor coming from the combination of skepticism & #empiricism that's hard to come by @NNTaleb

Simply, people need to be blinded by #knowledge @NNTaleb

The problem with #information is not that it is diverting & generally useless, but that it is toxic @NNTaleb

From the 'Skin in the game ' book which I finished reading recently

All pieces of information are not equal in importance @NNTaleb