A few weeks ago, I posted an article on Forbes called Sorry Nassim Taleb, Technology Actually Does Matter in which I explained a number of ways that technology has transformed business and society. Mr ...

When the economic future feels more iffy than ever, randomness should not be something to fear but rather, something to exploit. Author-provacateur Nassim Taleb talks with Fast Company about the ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The recent Twitter spat between “Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and quant investing pioneer Cliff Asness over hedging against highly remote events reminded me why Luke ...

Statistician and black swanning anti-GMO alarmist Nassim Taleb withdrew from the debate with me over GMO crops in which he had earlier agreed to participate. The debate was arranged by the Journal of ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is “irritated,” he told Bloomberg Television on March 31st, whenever the coronavirus pandemic is referred to as a “black swan,” the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare, ...

Nassim Taleb is one of the greatest investors, traders and thinkers of our time. As the founder and former hedge fund manager at Empirica Capital, Taleb was reported to have made an incredible 60% ...

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You might have heard of Nassim Taleb. He writes books about how unexpected things happen sometimes and how he’s much smarter than everyone else. I appear to have upset Mr. Taleb by being less than ...

The author of The Black Swan is back with a sweeping new theory: The longer a certain idea or technology has been around, the longer we can expect it to survive. In the physical world, lifespans are ...

From someone whom many associate with perilous warnings, the author has a cheery outlook for the future. The world of tomorrow is often portrayed as bleak: Unemployment will skyrocket due to ...

I had lunch with Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It didn’t go well. We met at a French cafe in Manhattan, on the Upper West Side, not far from Columbia University. It was a meeting more than a year in the ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” detailed the impossibility of predicting the future, which jerks forward by way of massive changes such as the ...