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Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN 7508633741
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb ISBN 7508633741
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This book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb has come up 8 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. 7 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Nick Kokonas, Russ Roberts, Ryan Holiday, Scott Patterson, Tim Ferriss, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-04-09 and the most recent from 2024-05-18. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church."--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences.
“his book Fooled by Randomness is awesome ... Fooled by Randomness is I think the better of all of his books”— Nick Kokonas
The guest here is Naval Ravikant and Nick Kokonas: Two featured guests in this anniversary compilation. Naval Ravikant: co-founder of AngelList and Airchat, angel investor, host of the Naval podcast. Nick Kokonas: former derivatives/options trader, co-owner and co-founder of the Alinea Group of restaurants (including three-Michelin-star Alinea) and founder of the Tock booking software. Tim Ferriss 10-year anniversary super combo: Naval Ravikant on honesty, habits, and happiness, plus Nick Kokonas on asymmetric risk and reinventing restaurants.
“there was this book that a lot of hedge fund managers like to talk about sort of like this secret book that they were passed around that they said was really great it was called Fooled by Randomness”— Scott Patterson
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.
“his first book was called fooled by randomness great book it's a fabulous book a lot of people's reaction to that book was oh there's nothing new in there”— Russ Roberts
The guest here is Russ Roberts: President of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Hoover Institution research fellow, host of the EconTalk podcast, and author of Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us. Economist Russ Roberts on why life's biggest decisions can't be solved with cost-benefit analysis, and what makes a life well lived.
“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.
“I think Taleb and Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, read those books. Just start to read Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Josh Waitzkin: Author of The Art of Learning, eight-time US national chess champion, two-time Tai Chi push hands world champion, and the first BJJ black belt under Marcelo Garcia. He now trains elite mental performers and runs The Art of Learning Project nonprofit. Josh Waitzkin turns the tables on Tim Ferriss, probing gating questions, the entanglement of genius and wounds, surrender, and preparing for accelerating change.
“a series of books by nicholas taleb about fooled by randomness and black swan highly recommend them”— guest
The guest here is Russ Tedrake: Roboticist, MIT professor, and VP of robotics research at Toyota Research Institute. Known for underactuated robotics, control theory, MIT's DARPA Robotics Challenge team, and the Drake simulator. MIT roboticist Russ Tedrake on why robots should embrace contact, softness, and physics instead of fighting gravity.
“fooled by randomness is over and over again a book that I come back to and have suggested to people to read during this”— Nick Kokonas
The guest here is Nick Kokonas: Co-owner and co-founder of the Alinea Group of restaurants and a former derivatives trader. He is also founder and CEO of Tock, a reservations and CRM platform for restaurants used by clients in more than 30 countries. Restaurateur Nick Kokonas explains how Alinea and his Tock startup pivoted to record revenue during the COVID-19 shutdown through asymmetric thinking and rapid execution.
“The Black Swan or Fooled by Randomness specifically I think helped to explain what we are contending with... I think that is that is worth reading.”— Ryan Holiday
The guest here is Ryan Holiday: Author of bestselling books on Stoicism including The Obstacle Is the Way and the Daily Stoic. A former marketing director at American Apparel turned writer who popularizes ancient Stoic philosophy for modern audiences. Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss apply Stoic philosophy to the COVID-19 crisis, choosing alive time over dead time.
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