HatTip to Dave Lull.
Since aphorisms lose their charm whenever explained, I only hint to the reader the main subject of this book, which corresponds to the central theme of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan, though rephrased in an aphoristic style —
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… As an empricist, I don’t have to understand the logic behind a system, I just take it as it is
because I’m not smart enough to understand it. I call it the opacity.
From IMD, “International Institute for Management Development,”
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CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS
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NNT enters the conversation around 5:45 NYU-POLY is the school NNT chose to teach at.
iatrogenics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iatrogenics
Interview with Morton L. Topfer Distinguished Professor and Department Chair Charles S. Tapiero and Distinguished Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb .
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For the inaugural video in the New Yorker Currents series, Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks with James Surowiecki about the causes of the 2008 financial crisis and the future of the economy.