Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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born

in Amioun, Lebanon

January 01, 1960

gender

male

website

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/

genre

Philosophy, Business & Investing

influences

Sextus Empiricus, Montaigne, Poincare, Popper, Hayek, Mandelbrot

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Taleb was a pioneering trader of complex financial derivatives, and his first major book was a treatise for practitioners. He has since delved into some of the themes that he encountered in that "laboratory" to consider randomness, especially the the epistemology of chance events, more broadly, and his more recent books have sought to make connections between the financial and more general manifestations of these phenomena. He crosses genres by mixing fiction, memoir, and philosophical parables with traditional non-fiction style and references to both humanistic and scientific traditions. See Wikipedia for more details.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Books

Average rating: 3.86 · 34,881 ratings · 2,835 reviews · 13 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 22,172 ratings — published 2007 — 56 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 9,514 ratings — published 2001 — 28 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,970 ratings — published 2012 — 15 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms 3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 918 ratings — published 2010 — 16 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Force Et Fragilitéréflexions Philosophiques Et Empiriques by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Christine Rimoldy (Traduction) 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Talentidentification, Selection And Development 3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Juhuse narrid. Juhuse varjatud roll elus ja äris 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Over robuustheid 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging by Arthur De Vany, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Afterword) 3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: academia, economics, herd-behavior

59 people liked it

“Love without sacrifice is like theft”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

tags: compromise, love, manipulation, marriage, marriage-advice, narcissism, narcissists, passive-aggressive, passive-aggressiveness, real-love, relationships, sacrifice, true-love

50 people liked it

“When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: opinions

49 people liked it

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