Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Series: Incerto Book: Fooled by randomness Book_ Black Swan - Nasim Taleb Book: The Bed of Procrustes Book_ Antifragile - Nicolas Tale Book: Skin in the game Model: Extremistan vs Mediocistan Model: convex vs concave Model: skin in the game Heuristic: acceleration of harm Model: Black Swan events Model: Lindy Effect Stay out of the financial markets if you don’t gave good tail protection Scale makes companies fragile scale = fragile centralisation = fragile Heuristic: companies with fluctuating revenue/income are less fragile Heuristic: private companies are less fragile Model: silver rule (aka reverse golden rule) Quote: philosophers should be known for one thing and one thing only Heuristic: whatever annoys book reviewers is a good thing Quote: if you see a fraud and don’t say fraud, you are a fraud [[model-book-knowledge-vs-other-knowledge....