12. Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

June 7th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 10 secs

philosophy, statistics, 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.

11. Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

May 20th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  57 mins 41 secs

economics, philosophy, self improvement

Things that Gain from Disorder.

We discuss the concepts of things that thrive and grow when exposed to volatility.

10. The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

May 14th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 32 secs

aphorisms, philosophy, wisdom

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

9. The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

May 7th, 2020  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 4 secs

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.

8. Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

May 3rd, 2020  |  Season 2  |  33 mins 25 secs

economy, philosophy, trading

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 love of finding a story or reason when none exists.