Nassim Taleb
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- Nassim Taleb: In Investing The People You Understand Most Easily Are Necessarily The Bull***tters.Here’s a great passage from Skin In The Game by Nassim Taleb in which he discusses how easily investors can be hoodwinked by smooth talking salepeople promising outsized returns…
- Nassim Taleb: 17 Books That Every Investor Should ReadWe recently started a series called – Superinvestors: Books That Every Investor Should Read. So far we’ve provided the book recommendations from: Charles Munger: 32 Books That E…
- Nassim Taleb: Economists Don’t Predict Better Than Cab Drivers. Typically A Little Worse, Often!Here’s a great interview with Nassim Taleb and Bob Shiller hosted by Nick Paumgarten at The New Yorker Summit. The panel is discussing economics, economists, and their role in f…
- Nassim Taleb: How Frequent The Profit Is Irrelevant; It Is The Magnitude Of The Outcome That CountsHere’s a great investing lesson by Nassim Taleb from his book Fooled by Randomness. Similarly to Michael Mauboussin in this article, Taleb makes the point that it’s not how freq…
- Marks on Taleb And The Self Inflicted Anxiety That Investors Create For ThemselvesOne of the best books ever written on investing is – Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim Taleb. Howard Marks recommended the bo…