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Talebiblia is a fan site devoted to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, created by Smiljana Skiba. It features a compilation of Taleb's most intriguing social media screenshots and interviews for readers to enjoy and explore. The website provides a resource for anyone looking to gain insights into Taleb's works, whether they are a dedicated reader or a curious newcomer.

Please note that Talebiblia is an independent website and is not affiliated with Nassim Nicholas Taleb in any manner.

Many thanks to Lucia Simeoni and Ashok Atluri for their invaluable assistance in creating and maintaining this website.

To stay up to date with Talebiblia's latest developments, follow Smiljana on Twitter @MasaSkiba

Bachelier was a stock option trader. He did his thesis while being a trader, which infuriated Poincaré who mistreated him & gave him low marks, hence excluding him from ever having an academic position in Paris. He preceded Einstein’s 1905 result (Brownian Motion) by a few years.

Does this heuristic work well? You can distinguish between Semitic tribes & Levantine-Greek settled population as follows. Just open the Old Testament. People are defined by their lineage, X son of X son of X son of X… Same for Arab “clans”. For settled L-G: Athenadoros of Tyre, Antiochos of Laodicia, etc.

Here is my formalization of Lindy

It was the Black Swan. Recursion…

A lot of people read my books but should not! They get it backwards and promote the ideas in reverse. What killed ½ a million people did not make them stronger. Antifragility requires constraining the left tail. And wearing a mask is not ABOUT YOU. It is about the collective.

Actually he got it wrong. Nomads live in tribes and are extrrrrrrremely tribal. There is an untranslatable expression in classical Arabic (present in Ibn Khaldun but under a slightly different meaning) called عصبية that relates to such tribalism.You can distinguish between Semitic tribes & Levantine-Greek settled population as follows. Just open the Old Testament. People are defined by their lineage, X son of X son of X son of X… Same for Arab “clans”. For settled L-G: Athenadoros of Tyre, Antiochos of Laodicia, etc.

Bitcoinism, like Statism, Communism, Soviet Socialism, Architectural Modernism, Naive Scale-free Libertarianism, is a severe form of UTOPIANISM (what I called “Platonicity” in the Incerto). There is this destructive urge to reinvent utopianism under new unrecognized forms. 2) The internet DELIVERED immediately after the spread of the WWWeb. It did sneak up on us; it provided daily new PRACTICAL solutions. It was useful. It did not need a sect of losers telling us theories about “what it can do in the future”. It was delivering IN THE PRESENT.

The taller other hired CEOs the more likely you were hired because of height.

“I don’t think bitcoin is going to end up the medium of exchange for the world. It’s too volatile to serve well as a medium of exchange,” he said. The argument sounds… familiar. Not a 20-30 yo loser

I don’t think bitcoin is going to end up the medium of exchange for the world. It’s too volatile to serve well as a medium of exchange,” he said. The argument sounds… familiar.

Talebiblia is a website for devoted fans of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, created by Smiljana Skiba. It features a compilation of Taleb's most intriguing social media screenshots and interviews for readers to enjoy and explore. The website provides a resource for anyone looking to gain insights into Taleb's works, whether they are a dedicated reader or a curious newcomer.

Please note that Talebiblia is an independent website and is not affiliated with Nassim Nicholas Taleb in any manner.

Many thanks to Lucia Simeoni and Ashok Atluri for their invaluable assistance in creating and maintaining this website.

To stay up to date with Talebiblia's latest developments, follow Smiljana on Twitter @MasaSkiba