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Should I know and/or care who this (seemingly) random person is?

• _Microft 5y ago
  You might know one of his books: "The Black Swan", "Antifragile" and "Skin in the Game". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
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• sz4kerto 5y ago
  Don't be fooled by this randomness.
• giarc 5y ago
  It's funny as I didn't know who he was either. I went to the link expecting someone with thousand upon thousand of Amazon reviews or something else that stood out about the profile/reviews. I had to Google him to find out who he was. I have heard of his books, but didn't recall his name I guess.
• MagnumOpus 5y ago
  He‘s a washed up former Wall Streeter who failed at getting rich through smart trading, and realised it‘s far easier to get rich by cosplaying a smart trader/philosopher on the Ted Talk circuit and to sell pop-Finance books to gullible laymen instead.
  • borepop 5y ago
    Sounds about right to me. I can't stand this guy.
  • edmundsauto 5y ago
    An alternative interpretation is that he made a lot of money betting against Wall Street in the 2008 Financial Crisis. Once he got eff-you money, he went into pompous teacher mode. His theories, while a bit unsubstantiated, are a different way of looking at the world that most people would do well to understand - even if they aren't correct in most circumstances. Basically he talks (from an inflated ego) about tail risk, randomness, and some types of system reliability He is definitely someone whose ideas are worth making up your own mind on, rather than listening to an internet critic (or fanboi's) opinion on.