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The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p139,...

Calibrating - “…how humans figure out probabilities in their decision making when...

Sep 29th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 135-136

“…how good we are at narrating backward, at inventing stories that convince us that we...

Sep 23rd

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p132

“…we are not manufactured, in our current edition of the human race, to understand...

Sep 23rd

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p121

“…our perceptual system may not react to what does not lie in front of our eyes, or what...

Sep 23rd

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p119-120

BIOLOGICAL TENDENCY TOWARDS CAUSALITY - shown via retrospective coherence, problem of induction,...

Sep 23rd

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 100-108,...

BIAS AND SILENT EVIDENCE “…the difference between what you see and what is there…a...

Sep 21st

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p88

“Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For instance, if you study every...

Sep 19th

“In a wired world, connecting people to what matters most is...”
— Deloitte Research Series on...

Sep 17th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p85

“…we live in a society where the reward mechanism is based on the illusion of the...

Sep 16th

“People want to hang out with like-minded people and want to...”
— Francois Gossieaux...

Sep 16th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p70

“Narrativity can viciously affect the rememberance of past events as follows: we will tend to...

Sep 16th

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p 63-69

NARRATIVE FALLACY “We like stories, we like to summarize, and we like to simplify, i.e., to...

Sep 15th

“The survey found that businesses that focussed tool choices...”
— Stephen Collins...

Sep 2nd

The black swan (Nassim Taleb) p57-59

POPPER’S FALSIFICATION “…you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than...

Sep 1st