Black Swan author's rules for living - Boing Boing
boingboing.net
Black Swan author's rules for living - Boing Boing
The black swan is Nassim Taleb’s best-known idea, and the subject of his book of the same name. As Taleb points out, this simple little error of reasoning trips up experts every day, especially in the realm of finance. No-one can predict the inherently unpredictable. All the prior data might produce a lovely trendline that can be extrapolated out f
... See moreRichard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
his book The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb defines a black swan as an event of low probability, extreme impact, and only retrospective predictability.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
Black swans are the unexpected outliers, the rare and unpredictable events that defy our usual expectations and profoundly impact our world. They are the surprises that no one sees coming, the game-changers that reshape the landscape of the possible.
Terence Faircloth added
The key is to properly prepare for whatever the system metes out, extreme or not. For the most part, people are scorched not by black swans, the unknown unknowns, but rather by their failure to prepare for gray swans.
Michael J. Mauboussin • Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
Black Swan Management 101: nature (and nature-like systems) likes diversity between organisms rather than diversity within an immortal organism,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable. Random House, 2007.
David Aldousstat.berkeley.eduJuan Orbea added
Make friends. It is dangerous to go alone. You heal yourself by helping others. Be kind and serve others. We can do more together than we can do alone.
Find out how you are fucked up. “They fuck you up your mom and dad, they don’t mean to but they do…” You inherited all sorts of bullshit that you don’t even know.
Own your shit and fix it. You will ne... See more
Find out how you are fucked up. “They fuck you up your mom and dad, they don’t mean to but they do…” You inherited all sorts of bullshit that you don’t even know.
Own your shit and fix it. You will ne... See more
phoebe and added