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The ‘intellectual-yet-idiot’ and other ideas

For the global intellectual network, Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an asset gone rogue. With his new book, 'Skin In The Game', he has risen to say that the modern intellectual is vastly inferior to your grandmother

5 min read24 Mar 2018
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Why you should be a little more like Don Quixote

Among literary characters, Don Quixote is a bumbling idiot, but evidence suggests that he exemplifies leadership

7 min read20 Aug 2016
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Reverberations in an echo chamber

Good decision-makers should consciously seek out diverse views that challenge their existing opinions

3 min read15 Nov 2015
Opinion

Esther Dyson | The anti-fragility of health

Things that are anti-fragile mostly living things not only resist being broken; they actually grow stronger under stress

4 min read24 Jan 2014
Opinion

Understanding certainties

Recently, Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ideas have come in for a lot more criticism. Partly, I suppose, this is down to the cyclical nature of public opinion

4 min read15 Jul 2013
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Book Review | Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don’t Understand

The philosopher of randomness explains how we may benefit from potentially harmful shocks

4 min read30 Mar 2013
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1 min read25 Apr 2009
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Off the shelf

Off the shelf

1 min read9 Nov 2008

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