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This reads like a badly-explained piece of Taleb's most recent book "Antifragility". Taleb specifically mentions most of the points mentioned, "the focus on te
by RiffMcGriff 14y ago
This reads like a badly-explained piece of Taleb's most recent book "Antifragility". Taleb specifically mentions most of the points mentioned, "the focus on teams" and "learning from past mistakes". Granted, these are obviously a huge part of startups in general, but if you pretend that you knew what a Black Swan was before Taleb popularized the term in 2001, you're a philosophy of science PhD or a liar. The fact that our young blogger gives absolutely NO credit to Taleb's book is disingenuous at best.
- loganfrederick 14y agoMost people who write about Black Swans nowadays would acknowledge the phrase comes from the book "The Black Swan". It's not disingenuous to not mention Taleb in every piece of writing which uses the phrase "Black Swan" precisely because Taleb is famous for creating/popularizing the phrase.