Book · recommended on 5 episodes
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN 1846141575
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN 1846141575
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This book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb has come up 5 times across 2 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Tim Ferriss. 4 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Harley Finkelstein, Nassim Taleb, Richard Koch, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-12-16 and the most recent from 2024-07-05. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time. Praise for Nicholas Nassim Taleb "[This] is the lesson of Taleb. and also the lesson of our volatile times.
“Nicholas Nassim talb wrote a book called an fragile which I think is probably his best book and the thesis behind that as you know is that resilience is not the point”— Richard Koch
The guest here is Terry Crews and Richard Koch: Terry Crews is a former NFL player turned actor (The Expendables, Brooklyn 99, Everybody Hates Chris), America's Got Talent host, and bestselling author of the memoir Tough. Richard Koch is a renowned investor and bestselling author of The 80/20 Principle, The Star Principle, and Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It. Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary combo: Terry Crews on courage and reframing failure, Richard Koch on the 80/20 principle and unreasonable success.
“that's the theme of antifragile the convexity”— Nassim Taleb
The guest here is Nassim Taleb and Scott Patterson: Nassim Taleb, former options trader and author of Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile, now advisor to the Universa tail-risk hedge fund; Scott Patterson, Wall Street Journal reporter and author of Chaos Kings. Nassim Taleb and journalist Scott Patterson on tail risk, the precautionary principle, and how traders profit from crisis.
“there's a great book by Nissim tele called anti-fragile are you familiar with that I love that book”— Harley Finkelstein
The guest here is Harley Finkelstein: President of Shopify, the e-commerce platform worth over $60 billion; former COO, self-described entrepreneur and chief storyteller. Shopify's president argues entrepreneurship now costs less than a couple Starbucks coffees, and shares lessons on resilience, spiky skills, and vulnerability.
“Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness, and The Black Swan... I found all of them to be very thought-provoking, and worth reading, and I don't say that lightly”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Tim Ferriss: Author of The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show. This is a solo Q&A episode where he both asks and answers, fielding live-chat and pre-submitted listener questions. Tim Ferriss answers live and submitted Q&A on sleep, parenting, fear, mood, psychedelics, learning, and travel.
“one book that i recently reread that i know you're about that you know about is televised book anti-fragile”— Harley Finkelstein
The guest here is Harley Finkelstein: Entrepreneur, lawyer, and Chief Operating Officer of Shopify, which he joined around 2010. He founded his first company at 17 while a student at McGill and is an advisor to Felicis Ventures. Shopify COO Harley Finkelstein on building the entrepreneurship company, lessons from law school, the Build-A-Business competition, and the accelerated future of retail.
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