Boardroom Talk – The wisdom of Nassim Taleb; words that someone should turn into a poster

By Alec Hogg.A good friend gave me a copy of Nassim Taleb's book Anti-Fragile – one of the few of his that I've not yet read. It's been elevated to the top of my rather lengthy to-read list. Taleb is a masterful philosopher on our modern financial system. His gift is to make the rest of us think – often very differently..I've had the privilege of spending quality time with Taleb a few times since attending a half-day workshop ahead of a hedge fund conference in Nice a decade and a half back. Those few hours transformed the way I see the world. A process accelerated by reading and re-reading his first book, Fooled By Randomness. .___STEADY_PAYWALL___.A self-proclaimed "economic activist", it says much about the Lebanese-born American's popularity, that apart from our re-acquaintance at a Discovery Leadership Conference in Sandton, the other times we met were in exotic locations – Monaco and Davos; me as a reporter, he as one of the star attractions. .Nassim has an active Twitter account (@nntaleb) whose featured pic is an owl (what else?). It is responsible for this inspirational advice:.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1675248818739134464?s=20.Someone needs to turn that into a poster. .Sterkte.AlecRead also:Premium – BizNews Share Portfolio: June update with Alec HoggPremium from the FT – The myth of autocratic competence takes another hitPremium – From the FT: Why we should worry about the technology pessimists

Boardroom Talk – The wisdom of Nassim Taleb; words that someone should turn into a poster

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