From Dave Lull who, like me, enjoys seeing NNT’s ideas spreading far and wide.
Jean Bauer interjects: “Memories of serendipitous discoveries in physical stacks are example of Black Swan Theory. Rarely happens but very memorable.”
Brian: “Yes. But… the impact that it has probably makes for a larger memory of it.”
Chris: “And I think it’s especially stack-based serendipity that gets played up. We don’t talk about social networks this way.”
Brian: “I think we are just getting there with online serendipity … it is still much newer phenomena than physical.”
via “a love letter to libraries and archives” | hangingtogether.org.
We’re talking about asset pricing here.
Seemingly Taleb cannot make a great call .. meaning he was extremely fortunate to rise to ambition in 2008 .. just a lucky call ..
Taleb is a flash in the pan
Taleb is an intellectual fraud