Nassim Taleb also addresses regime change in chaotic systems in his book The Black Swan.
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After a long silence, just when I suspected he had fallen asleep, Taleb spoke again.
So I was eager to ask Taleb, to find out what had happened after they arrived.
Here Taleb looked at me as if I were suddenly standing a long way away.
Taleb says that to prepare for the unpredictable, firms need to avoid debt and become robust.
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When the boat arrived in Marseilles, Taleb was standing at the dock waiting for them.
Nassim Taleb advanced the notion that investors have a cognitive bias against events they have never seen.
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Mr. Taleb is fascinated by the rare but pivotal events that characterize life in the power-law world.
The theory, developed by Nassim Taleb, is about the occurrence of rare events that affect the securities markets.
But, since Taleb insists these commentators are always wrong, what then to expect?
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Nassim Taleb has been worrying for a while about 'fat tail' events .
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Taleb's method is very similar to what CEOs need to be doing--understanding the key leverage points of their economic models.
They assume that because Taleb writes about unseen and improperly calculated risks, his objective must be to reduce or eliminate risk.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an applied statistician and derivatives trader-turned-philosopher, and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
As Nassim Taleb points out, there is no word in English (or in any other language, ancient or modern) that conveys this idea.
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Or, as the concept-originator, Nicholas Nassim Taleb did, you could simply bet against what is predictable rather than for a speculative Black Swan.
These "known unknowns" he dubbed "grey swans", in a reference to Nicholas Nassim Taleb's book "The Black Swan", about the nature of unpredictability.
In 2007 Nassim Nicholas Taleb created a widely-spread meme and best-selling book on Black Swans, highly unexpected events that carry major scale and impact.
Nassim Taleb argues successful investment managers are lucky, not good.
The following day Taleb, Hydar, and Nafisa flew back to Paris.
The trouble with the Recency Effect is that everyone all of a sudden thought they were Nassim Taleb, orinthological experts on the spotting of Black Swans.
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Nassim Taleb has explained the stupidity of such false assurances and misplaced comfort in his Black Swan Theory, and I will not attempt to footnote his extensive treatise.
Taleb contends that banks and trading firms are very vulnerable to hazardous Black Swan Events and are exposed to losses beyond those that are predicted by their defective models.
Late one night, he on the bed, I on the floor, the room as black as a well and filling up with the smell of whiskey, Taleb suddenly spoke.
From an investor's perspective, the idea of planning for low-probability, high-consequence events is well treated in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
In what may seem somewhat disturbing to some readers (and Taleb himself is disturbed by it as well), what makes a system antifragile is that its individual pieces are perishable.
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Advancing a small number of large, intricate programs also seems like a vivid example of the sort of dangerously excessive investment in the highly fragile that Taleb inveighs against.
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