Nassim Taleb Archives

Is an antilibrary, on it own, really such a good thing?

September 23, 2018 No Comments

Much has been written about Nassim Taleb’s famous passage in The Black Swan about the antilibrary. (Farnam Street and Maria Popova) From The Black Swan (p1, 2008 Random House International Edition) “The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large […]

Psychology

What are the seismic forces that we can’t see?

July 27, 2016 No Comments

In the last month since Brexit, I’ve been through some of the stages of shock and trauma. Stage 1 – Anger/Disbelief When Brexit first happened, I was in a daze. I remember getting up at 5am that Friday and feeling sick to the pit of my stomach. Angelique told me that on hearing the news, […]