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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Speaking in San Francisco Dec 11, 2012

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Let the book tour begin! And you know that means lots of new audio coming as well.
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

In his global bestseller The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that rare, unpredictable events (“black swans”) have the greatest impact on our lives – and that our blindness to these random events has a price. Now he returns with Antifragile, a bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error as an antidote to our fragile way of life, instead of trying to avoid mistakes and collapsing when catastrophe strikes (see 2008). It may just change our lives.

“The hottest thinker in the world.”
– London Times

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Tuesday, Dec 11

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Hay Festival – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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NNT and Danny Kahneman are at the Hay Festival (UK) this weekend!

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Event 117 • Sunday 3 June 2012, 4pm • Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage

AntiFragility

The visionary probability guru and Black Swan author previews his study of How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand.

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Taleb Says Euro Breakup ‘Not a Big Deal’ as U.S. Scariest – Businessweek

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A breakup of the euro “is not a big deal,” Taleb said yesterday at an event in Montreal hosted by the Alternative Investment Management Association. “When they break it up, there will be a lot of fun currencies. This is why I am not afraid of Europe, or investing in Europe. I’m afraid of the United States.”

The budget deficit as a proportion of gross domestic product in the U.S. amounted to 8.2 percent at the end of 2011, government figures show. That’s twice the 4.1 percent ratio for euro-region countries, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

“Of course Europe has its problems, but it’s in much better shape than the United States,” Taleb said. He voiced similar concerns about U.S. prospects at a conference in Tokyo in September.

via Taleb Says Euro Breakup ‘Not a Big Deal’ as U.S. Scariest – Businessweek.
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Nassim Taleb, Hedgework, Frankfurt May 8, 2012

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NNT spoke at Hedgework in Frankfurt on May 8, 2012.
More pictures at the Hedgework site.

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Manche Systeme seien zerbrechlicher, andere weniger. „Wenn Sie ein Wasserglas tausend Mal aus fünf Millimeter Höhe auf den Boden fallen lassen, wird es dies mit großer Wahrscheinlichkeit überstehen“, sagte Taleb am Mittwochabend bei einem Vortrag vor dem Diskussionskreis für alternative Investments „Hedgework“ in Frankfurt. „Aber wenn Sie es ein Mal aus 5 Metern Höhe fallen lassen, wird es wahrscheinlich zerbrechen.“

[Some systems are more fragile than others. “If you leave a glass of water a thousand times the amount of five millimeters falling on the ground, it will survive this with great probability,” Taleb said on Wednesday evening with a presentation to the group discussion for alternative investments “Hedgework” in Frankfurt. “But if you dropped it once from 5 meters high, it will probably break.”]

via Bestseller-Autor Nassim Taleb: Aus kleinen Fehlern lernen – Fonds & Mehr – FAZ.