Nassim Taleb: How to live in a World we Don't Understand

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14 Sep 2017, 5:13 pm

Interesting and entertaining sociology, philosophy, and politics lecture. He seems to have some good observations (1:40:57 run-time).


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14 Sep 2017, 5:44 pm

A close to 2 hour video isn't going to work fro me, is there a text, a book, something in print?
Ah, there is a book, and reviews of it,
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2013/02/23/book-review-antifragile-how-to-live-in-a-world-we-dont-understand/

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In The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote on the highly improbable and unpredictable events that underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb aims to stand uncer­tainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. Steve Fuller comments on the applicability of Taleb’s work to academia and discusses just how ‘fragile’ the academic way of being has become.

Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand. Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Allen Lane. November 2012.


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