Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOA Few Things We Don’t Quite Get About the Levant(First Draft of the Foreword to Pierre Zalloua’s forthcoming book. For comments.)12 min read·May 12, 2024--75--75
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOBitcoin is the Detector of Imbeciles:On The Cluster of Charlatans, Zero Interest Rate Virgins, & Crypto Tumors11 min read·Jan 4, 2023--65--65
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOHow I write(Preface to the 15th year Italian edition of The Black Swan)7 min read·Oct 30, 2022--69--69
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOOn ChristianityAn essay as a foreword for Tom Holland’s Dominion14 min read·Aug 25, 2022--18--18
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOA Clash of Two SystemsThe war in Ukraine is a confrontation between two systems, one modern, legalistic, decentralized and multicephalous; the other archaic…12 min read·Apr 19, 2022--13--13
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTONo, Covid 19 is not an old person problemClearly Covid affects the old, disproportionately. But so do practically almost all other ailments. A simple fact of life, in a population…3 min read·Nov 29, 2021--2--2
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOSnowden, Phony hence Traitor?When you catch someone with a shoddy-but-carefully-curated story, Edward Snowden, producing the mother of bad faith arguments (in effect…6 min read·Aug 9, 2021----
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOSafe HeavenForeword to Mark Spitznagel’s book Safe Haven [Amazon]9 min read·May 6, 2021--26--26
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOMaestro BogomolnyForeword for Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles by Alexander B.5 min read·Nov 18, 2020--9--9
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOReligion, Violence, Tolerance & Progress: Nothing to do with TheologyReligions create highly differentiated belief clusters and mentalities that have little to do with their theologies.10 min read·Oct 21, 2020--49--49