Nassim Taleb
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The Black Swan and Our Fatal Blindness to the UnexpectedOne of my favorite investing-related books is The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Recommended by both Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, it off…
Nassim Taleb: Rising Risk and Irrational Market BehaviorIn his recent Bloomberg interview, Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan, issued a damning assessment of the market’s outlook, warning of irrational behavior, flawed polici…
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Myth of Skill In Investment ManagementIn his book – Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses how success can easily by attributed to luck, and introduces the Monte Carlo engine to simulate purely random…
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: 5 Key Investing Lessons: Stay Within Your ExpertiseIn this interview at the AIM Summit, Nassim Nicholas Taleb provides 5 key investing lessons: Stay Within Your Expertise: Taleb emphasizes the importance of sticking to your prof…- N N Taleb: The Link Between Misinformation & Fooled By RandomnessIn his latest presentation, N N Taleb discusses the link between misinformation and fooled by randomness. Here’s an excerpt from the presentation: Taleb: I’m gonna talk about di…
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Most Successes Come From Taking Action During Windows Of OpportunityIn his book Fooled By Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses how most successes come from taking action during windows of opportunity. Here’s an excerpt from the book: Let …
- Nassim Taleb: When I Don’t Have Skin In The Game, I Am Usually DumbIn his book – Skin In The Game, Nassim Taleb discusses the importance of having skin in the game, particularly as it relates to investing. Here’s an excerpt from the book: Let u…
- N N Taleb: Connectivity Has Created The Winner-Take-All EffectIn his recent conversation with Stephen Wolfram at the Wolfram Summer School 2021, Nassim Taleb discussed how connectivity has created the winner-take-all effect. Here’s an exce…
- Taleb: What Are Fat Tails?In the latest episode of his excellent mini-series, Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses an introductory lesson on fat-tails using the example of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, or Jeff …
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Don’t Tell Me What You Think, Tell Me What You Have In Your PortfolioIn his book – Skin In The Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shares an interesting story that highlights what he means by having skin in the game as it relates to the world of finance …
- Nassim Taleb: Make Lemonade Out Of Lemons During Periods Of UncertaintyIn a recent interview with RT, Nassim Taleb discussed how we can navigate through the uncertainty into a post-pandemic future. During the interview Taleb provided some great ins…
- Nassim Taleb: Advised Tail Risk Fund Returned 3,600% in MarchHere’s an article from Bloomberg which reports that a tail-risk fund advised by Nassim Taleb returned a staggering 3,612% in March. Here’s an excerpt from the article: A tail-ri…
- Nassim Taleb: Why Are We Bailing Out Companies That Spent Their Cash And Took On DebtHere’s a great short interview with Nassim Taleb on Bloomberg in which he discusses the Coronavirus as being a ‘White Swan’ not a ‘Black Swan’ event, as well as his thoughts on …
- Nassim Taleb: Why It’s Better To Panic EarlyHere’s a great little video by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Yaneer Bar-Yam discussing the overreaction to the Coronavirus and why its better to panic early. Here’s an excerpt from …
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: If You Read An Investment Proposal That Looks Like An Investment – Don’t Invest!Here is Nassim Nicholas Taleb being interviewed about his book Skin in the Game, by author and journalist Katrine Marçal. He explains the concepts of Skin in the Game and Soul i…
- Nassim Taleb: Just How Do People, Ignorant Of What They’re Trading, Succeed?Here’s an excerpt from Nassim Taleb’s Book – Antifragile, in which he discusses how people, who are ignorant of what they’re trading, can be successsful, saying: My intellectual…
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: If An Investor Has A Risk Of Terminal Blowup, The “Potential Returns” Of His Strategy Are Totally InconsequentialJust been re-reading Nassim Taleb’s book – Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, which includes a great passage on risk and a real-life example of how it applies in inves…
- Nassim Taleb – Just Because An Investor Makes Money Doesn’t Mean They’re GoodHere’s a great extract from Nassim Taleb’s book – Fooled By Randomness in which he illustrates how some investors are perceived as being ‘great’, when in actual fact they simply…