Medicine and Convexity (Antifragility), a summary (technical) sheet.
Medicine and Convexity (Antifragility)
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Monthly Archives: October 2012
If you are only bad-mouthed by people…
If you are only bad-mouthed by people who prefer your company over those of many others, only critiqued by those who scrutinize your work, and only insulted by persons who open your email as soon as they see it, then you are doing the right thing.
Nonfiction Review: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Random, $30 560p ISBN 978-1-4000-6782-4
Here we go! HatTip to Dave Lull.
Taleb’s vigorous, blustery prose drips with Nietzschean scorn for academics, bankers, and bourgeois “sissies” who crave comfort and moderation: “If you take risks and face your fate with dignity,” he intones, “insults by half-men small men, those who don’t risk” are no more rankling than “barks by non-human animals.” More worldview than rigorous argument, Taleb’s ramblings may strike readers with knowledge-shknowledge as ill-considered; still, he presents a rich—and often telling—critique of modern civilization’s obsession with security
Friends, is there an Algerian…
Friends, is there an Algerian (or Maghrebi) in the room? I can’t translate this recurrent اشعال into Classical or Eastern Arabic (it visibly does not mean to set on fire).
http://www.la7oon.com/lyrics/lyrics/v/F40BEA93D3
This is from the moving reunion of the Judeo-Moslem orchestra El Gusto
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/arts/music/algerian-chaabi-musicians-reunite-in-the-band-el-gusto.html?pagewanted=1
Thanks, N
If a book has “practice” or “practical” in its title…
If a book has “practice” or “practical” in its title, then it is probably written by a non-practicing academic. All the titles with “The Theory and Practice of” or “A Practitioner’s Perspective” I found were written by nonpractitioners.