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Life in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Extremistan


I met Nassim Nicholas Taleb last year, briefly, at a lecture he gave on the impact of highly improbable events: Black Swans. I’m just reading his book now. And then along came my own Black Swan. Against all expectations, improbably yet explicably, but hopefully inconsequentially, I have been adopted as DK’s Blog Mascot. As Taleb might point out, I shouldn’t be surprised. I didn’t expect to be in Parliament now either. Whatever next? I just finished two other books which […]

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