An entertaining review of his new book on "anti-fragility". The guy really is insufferable.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/21/antifragile-how-to-live-nassim-nicholas-taleb-review Best line from the review: --------QUOTE And there are some nice lines: "We practitioners and quants aren't too fazed by remarks on the part of academics – it would be like prostitutes listening to technical commentary by nuns." The problem, though, is that Taleb no longer writes from the perspective of the practitioner but of someone who has crossed over to live among the academics and wants to tell them what they are missing. He is now more like the nun with a racy past who lectures the rest of the convent about the meaning of sex: not much fun for anyone. -raghu.
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