Season 2

9.  The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
March 27, 2020

9. The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events — and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. It was published in 2007, by author and former options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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8. Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
May 3, 2020

8. Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets is a book that deals with the fallibility of human knowledge. Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains how we delude ourselves into thinking untrue things due to our …

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10. The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
May 14, 2020

10. The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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11. Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
May 20, 2020

11. Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Things that Gain from Disorder. We discuss the concepts of things that thrive and grow when exposed to volatility.

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12. Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
June 7, 2020

12. Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life. Having a measurable risk when taking a major decision -- is necessary for fairness, commercial efficiency, and risk management, as well as being necessary to understand the world.

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