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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Recent and Forthcoming Seminars and Talks

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Wow, NNT and Danny Kahneman together again!

(These are generally open to the public; corporate lectures are usually excluded from this list)

2013

Yale University, Feb 11

New York Public Library, Feb 5, Conversation with Daniel Kahneman

Continuing Book Tour: Barnes and Noble, Feb 8, 8AM; Book Culture (near Columbia U.) Feb 28

National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences, Jan 25, 2013

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Quantitative Congress, Jan 22, 2013 [Closed to the Public]. Same day lunch at Union League Club.

Oxford University, Jan 11, 2013 On the Ubiquity of Nonlinear Responses in Life and Their Probabilistic Consequences (Why projects are late, dams hard to build, hypertension medicine complicated to administer, etc.)

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Friends, for the Friday lecture in Oxford…

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Friends, for the Friday lecture in Oxford, we had to change venue to the largest one, the Sheldonian (capacity 1,000). There are a few seats left (27). This talk will be different from others, as I will integrate fractal richness in the texture of life.

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BT Centre Lecture to be given by Nassim N. Taleb
Antifragile: How to Live and Manage in a World We Don’t Understand. Everything in life has nonlinear responses, from medical treatments to project management. The talk introduces the concept of fragility and

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A 2000 page legistation is fragile…

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VIA NEGATIVA: “A 2000 page legistation is fragile; a ten page one is robust; removing a harmful legislation is antifragile.” Anonymous person at my lecture yesterdayAlso: “Increasing happiness if fragile, decreasing known sources of unhappiness is antifragile.” A footnote in Antifragile, based on the mafia expression “I have a pebble in my shoe I want you to remove it”.

Looking for the brilliant Anonymous person who gave the quote yesterday at Politics & Prose in Washington, to give credit.

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Friends, I understand why book tours should be every 5 3/4 years.

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Friends, I understand why book tours should be every 5 3/4 years. Next week:Monday Dec 3 Washington DC Politics and Prose, Wednesday Dec 5 London, LSE; Thursday Dec 6 London, RSA

http://www.politics-prose.com/event
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2012/12/20121205t1830vSZT.aspx
http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/antifragile

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Hello from London Anyone going to DUNBO Brooklyn on Wed?

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Hello from London
Anyone going to DUNBO Brooklyn on Wed?
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Book Launch: Antifragile:
Things That Gain From Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb —
Wednesday, November 28, 7–9 PM
Why is Calculus 103 easier than Calculus 101? Why is email a constant low-grade stress on our lives? Why do more pedestrians die in cross walks than in other parts of the street? Why is being a cab driver a more reliable job than being a banker? Why is it better to have a hobby than to be a professional scholar?

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