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.)May 1278May 1278
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOBitcoin is the Detector of Imbeciles:On The Cluster of Charlatans, Zero Interest Rate Virgins, & Crypto TumorsJan 4, 202367Jan 4, 202367
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOHow I write(Preface to the 15th year Italian edition of The Black Swan)Oct 30, 202270Oct 30, 202270
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOOn ChristianityAn essay as a foreword for Tom Holland’s DominionAug 25, 202218Aug 25, 202218
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…Nov 29, 20212Nov 29, 20212
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…Aug 9, 202112Aug 9, 202112
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOSafe HeavenForeword to Mark Spitznagel’s book Safe Haven [Amazon]May 6, 202126May 6, 202126
Nassim Nicholas TalebinINCERTOMaestro BogomolnyForeword for Cut the Knot: Probability Riddles by Alexander B.Nov 18, 20209Nov 18, 20209
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.Oct 21, 202049Oct 21, 202049
Nassim Nicholas TalebLebanon: from Ponzi to AntifragilityAbout two years before the recent collapse, at a dinner, a then (slow thinking) member of the Lebanese parliament kept bugging me for an…Jul 10, 202014Jul 10, 202014