#NNTaleb

Jeremy Giffon

jeremygiffon

There’s no higher aesthetic/intellectual achievement than calling your shots. Only a rare few have been able to do it.- Jonah Peretti- Li Lu - Thiel- Soros- KeynesAre a few who

Taylor Pearson

TaylorPearsonMe

1/ The most influential books on me with the approximate age I read them 2/ Dune by Frank Herbert (14) - My first (and still favorite) sci-fi book. Inspired me

David Boxenhorn

davidboxenhorn

1. Haredim and Corona, a thread.About 50% of the coronavirus cases in Israel are among Haredim, even though they make up only about 10% of the Israeli population. I've seen

Brandon Quittem

Bquittem

1/ A quick thread exploring 12 Reasons to Buy Bitcoin.Let's go 2/ Bitcoin is the performing asset of the last decade.How could you not own the best performing asset

Nacho Oliveras

NachoOliveras

Talebtwitter as The Smurfs’ Village1/n Papa Smurf / @nntaleb 2/n Baby Smurf / @Firsou 3/n Brainy Smurf / @trishankkarthik 4/n Farmer Smurf / @normonics 5/n Painter Smurf / @NonMeek 6/n

Felix Hartmann

FelixOHartmann

In the latest market update we explore September's pullback. Should we be worried about another winter?A thread with the highlights of our take https://twitter.com/hartmanncap/status/1312164854849888256 1/ In the 2016/2017 bull market

Simon DeDeo

SimonDeDeo

There’s a fundamental aporia in discussion of cancel culture: every group—including those represented in the Harper’s letter—has things you can’t say. No meta-principle can allow for direct, rational discussion of

Soumitra Sharma

soumitra_sharma

The last 3 crises have reinforced just how useless much of what we all are taught in school really is, when it comes to dealing with real-life uncertainties. Here is

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

nntaleb

101 BS THINGS TAUGHT TO STUDENTS, 1That correlation is a measure of relationship betw 2 variables. It is very rarely so.Few understand how correlation requires 1) no subsampling, 2) strict

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

In-flight transmission despite required masks, gloves and pre-flight testing. @nntaleb A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers.https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/11/20/new-

𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗗 is threading his feed

DavidCrandall_W

Why I believe Roam is Antifragilea thread by yours trulyhttps://twitter.com/roamhacker/status/1308503256495202306 Quick recap on Antifragile:There is a concept that a spectrum exists measuring things weakened by stress (fragile), unaffected

HUNTSMAN 🇺🇸

man_integrated

Entropy rules all.The only way to offset this fundamental tendency towards chaos and disorder is to input new energy into the system.It is re-cognition and using old assets in new

Trung Phan

TrungTPhan

Unofficial list of the 16 greatest investments ever(Minimum gain of $1B) 1/ The best of the best Naspers - Tencent (2001): $32m -> $250B (7800x)Softbank - Alibaba (2000): $20m ->

Nick White 🌊

nickwh8te

DeFi is the world’s most antifragile financial system.Why? Building in the open antifragile code Enabling predatory financial primitives antifragile markets Encouraging platform competition antifragile incentive modelsDeFi will

SPENCER

SP1NS1R

The Age of Curationa thread The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enables billions of people to create content every day.The result is more

Pomp 🌪

APompliano

One of the best investors in the world intentionally loses millions of dollars a year. He has been doing this for more than a decade, yet he remains one of