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List of websites where you can find content related to Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Official Home Page
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Medium - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Official Medium Page
- Real World Risk Institute - An institute led by Nassim Taleb. The aim is to build the principles and methodology for real-world rigor in decision making and codify a clear-cut way to approach risk.
- Nassim Taleb News Site - Unofficial news site about Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Nassim Taleb Reddit AMA - Question-and-answer interactive interview on Ask Me Anything subreddit
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Goodreads - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Goodreads Page
- The Black Swan Man Website - Comics based on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Wikipedia - Wikipedia article on Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - NYU - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's NYU Faculty Page
List of books written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options - (1997)
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - (2001)
- The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - (2007)
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms - (2010)
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - (2014)
- Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile - (2016)
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life - (2018)
- Incerto (Deluxe Edition): Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game - (2019)
- The Technical Incerto - Vol 1: The Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails - (2019)
- The Technical Incerto - Vol 2: Fragility, Risk, and Convexity - (2020)
list of official and unofficial social media accounts
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Twitter (@nntaleb) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Official Twitter Page
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Facebook (@nntaleb) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Official Facebook Page
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom (@TalebWisdom) - Unofficial Twitter account sharing Nassim Nicholas Taleb's wisdom from his books, interviews, and tweets
- The Black Swan Man (@black_swan_man) - Twitter account sharing comics based on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's books
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb Bot (@nntalebbot) - Unofficial bot that scrapes highlights from @nntaleb’s Incerto collection
- N N Taleb's Probability Moocs - These are mini MOOCs explaining technical points in Taleb's INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, etc.). They are split into "Technical Notes" and "Tutorials"
List of book recommendations by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Nassim Taleb leaves reviews for his favorite books on Amazon. This list includes the books, which he has given 5-stars. Nassim Taleb used to have a list of books he read more than once on his personal website. The list is not available anymore, but it can be accessed via the Way Back Machine.
- Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure by Cédric Villani
- Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper by Bryan Magee
- Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People by Stephen Wolfram
- No Bull: My Life In and Out of Markets by Michael Steinhardt
- A Guide to Econometrics – 4th Edition by Peter E.Kennedy
- Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense by Rory Sutherland
- Financial Derivatives: Pricing, Applications, and Mathematics by Jamil Baz and George Chacko
- Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman
- The (Mis)behavior of Markets by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson
- The Blank Swan: The End of Probability by Elie Ayache
- The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-László Barabási
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust by John Coates
- The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century by Robert J.Shiller
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz
- Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
- How Nature Works: The Science of Self-organized Criticality by Per Bak
- Social Cognition: Making Sense of People by Ziva Kunda
- The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman
- Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts by Terry Burnham
- A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey
- Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week by John Little and Doug McGuff
- Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet by Richard Nikoley
- Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease by Gary Taubes
- Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs by Morton A. Meyers
- Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter
- Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious by Timothy D.Wilson
- The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older by Elkhonon Goldberg
- A History Of Private Life, Volumes I to V by Paul Veyne, Phillippe Aries, and Georges Duby
- Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself by Sheila Bair
- Bull! : A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market–and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles by Maggie Mahar
- The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War by Graham Robb
- The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition by Norman Russell
- The French Revolution and What Went Wrong by Stephen Clarke
- Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
- Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan Blackmore
- Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster
- I Think, Therefore I Laugh by John Allen Paulos
- Intellectuals in the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff
- Invariances: The Structure of the Objective World by Robert Nozick
- Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco and Alastair McEwen
- Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities by Alain Bertaud
- Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos by Hardeep Singh Puri
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition by Peter Bevelin
- The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
- The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way by Jerry A. Fodor
- The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity by Michael Marmot
- The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly
- Thinking and Deciding by Jonathan Baron
- Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind by Robert Kuzban
- Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools by Didier Sornette
- Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian von Baeyer
- Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by A. D. Aleksandrov, A. N. Kolmogorov, and M. A. Lavrent’ev
- Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance (Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability by Paul Embrechts, Claudia Klüppelberg, and Thomas Mikosch
- Probability Theory (Courant Lecture Notes) by S. R. S. Varadhan
- Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes by Athanasios Papoulis and S. Unnikrishna Pillai
- Rational Decisions by Ken Binmore
- Statistical Models: Theory and Practice by David Freedman
- The Kelly Capital Growth Investment Criterion: Theory and Practice by Leonard C. MacLean, Edward O. Thorp, and William T. Ziemba
- The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal by James Franklin
- The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets by Johannes Voit
- Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems by Didier Sornette
- A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes by Peter Bevelin
- A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati
- Albertine Gone by Marcel Proust
- Amerika: The Missing Person by Franz Kafka
- Auto-da-Fé: A Novel by Elias Canetti
- Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen
- Clea (Alexandria Quartet) by Lawrence Durell
- Climates: A Novel by André Maurois
- Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
- Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
- Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
- Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
- History: A Novel by Elsa Morante
- Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
- How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
- Howard's End by E. M. Forster
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Immortality by Milan Kundera
- In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
- Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Justine (Alexandria) by Lawrence Durell
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
- Lady L. by Romain Gary
- Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
- Man's Fate (La Condition Humaine) by André Malraux
- Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories by Gregor von Rezzori
- Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
- Nadja by André Breton
- Paulina 1880 by Pierre-Jean Jouve
- Silk by Alessandro Barrico
- Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
- The Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
- The Girls by Henry de Montherlant
- The Lost Estate by Henri Alain-Fournier
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1 by Robert Musil
- The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq
- The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- The Remains of the Day by Kazio Ishiguro
- The Secret of Fatima by Peter J. Tanous
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Sunday Philosophy Club : An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery by Alexander McCall Smith
- The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories by Nina Berberova
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia
- Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
- Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
- Villa Triste: A Novel by Patrick Modiano
- 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List by Mimi Sheraton
- Modern Aramaic-English/English-Modern Aramaic Dictionary & Phrasebook: Assyrian/Syriac by Nicholas Awde
List of podcasts where Nassim Nicholas Taleb was interviewed
- The Beirut Banyan EPISODE 81: Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Local Solutions for Lebanon - (2019/11)
- HumanCurrent Podcast: Probability & Adaptation. An Interview With Gad Saad & Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2018/08)
- The B&N Podcast: Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2018/07)
- Likeville Podcast: A Celebration of What Works - (2018/07)
- Ralph Nader Radio Hour: Skin in the Game - (2018/06)
- Art of Manliness Podcast: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Interview - (2018/06)
- Conversations with Tyler: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math - (2018/05)
- EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the Game - (2018/05)
- EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game - (2017/08)
- EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Precautionary Principle and Genetically Modified Organisms - (2015/01)
- James Altucher Show: EP.45 – Nassim Taleb: Why You Should Embrace Uncertainty - (2014/09)
- EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Taleb on Skin in the Game - (2013/09)
- Reason Podcasts: Nassim Taleb Talks Antifragile, Libertarianism, and Capitalism's Genius for Failure - (2013/01)
- Free Library of Philadelphia: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - (2012/11)
- The Wharton School: Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans - (2011/04)
- The Long Now Foundation: Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought - (2008/02)
List of talks, lectures, and interviews where you can watch Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb speaks on "How India Can Achieve Anti-fragile Growth" | IEC 2019 - (2019/12)
- Why Nassim Taleb is still betting on crypto - (2019/12)
- Localism and its Application to Lebanon - (2019/11)
- Studio Axess Idéspecial 2019 - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2019/11)
- EFN: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game - (2019/10)
- Nassim Taleb Talk at a Conference in Brazil - (2019/09)
- Nassim Taleb Lecture: Don't be fooled! | The truth about science technology education and wealth - (2019/09)
- 2035 University: Nassim Taleb and Dmitry Peskov. Debate about the risk-engineering, WorldSkills Conference - (2019/08)
- Nassim Taleb at the 2018 Prime Quadrant Conference - (2019/04)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb at ICCS 2018 - (2019/02)
- RiskMindsTV: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "you should study risk taking, not risk management" - (2018/12)
- JLF at Boulder 2018: Skin in the Game - (2018/12)
- Talks at Google: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "Skin in the Game" - (2018/11)
- #BLOCKCON: Fireside Chat: Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Naval Ravikant - (2018/10)
- Bloomberg: Taleb Says World Is More Fragile Today Than in 2007 - (2018/10)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Speech At RPI's Media & War Conference - (2018/09)
- LinkedIn - Nassim Taleb - (2018/06)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report: 'Skin In The Game' - With Special Guest Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2018/03)
- Bloomberg: Nassim Taleb Says Investors Need 'Insurance' From Market Drops - (2018/03)
- THE SAAD TRUTH #597: My Chat with Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2018/02)
- Bloomberg: Nassim Taleb on Black Monday, Fed, Market Lessons - (2017/10)
- Bloomberg: Nassim Taleb on His Black Monday Positions - (2017/10)
- Problems with probability - (2017/09)
- Bloomberg: Nassim Nicholas Taleb Sees Worse Tail Risks Than in 2007 - (2017/03)
- India Today Conclave: A Session With Dr. Nassim Nicholas - (2017/02)
- Of Black Swans and Intellectual Fallacies - (2017/01)
- RiskMindsTV: Gerd Gigerenzer & Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The dichotomy of behavioural economics - (2016/12)
- Nutanix .NEXT 2016 Europe - Closing Keynote [Nassim N. Taleb] - (2016/11)
- Taleb Delivers Commencement Speech at American University of Beirut 2016 - (2016/06)
- Tail Risk Measurement Heuristics by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2016/02)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb at the ET Global Business Summit - (2016/02)
- Keynote Address, 2015 Fletcher Conference on Managing Political Risk - (2015/08)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb interview | Tomorrow 2015 - (2015/06)
- Nassim Taleb: Small is Beautiful - but Also Less Fragile - (2014/12)
- The New Yorker: Financial Collapse: A Panel with Nassim N. Taleb & Robert Shiller - (2014/07)
- The 2008 financial crisis and the economy - The New Yorker Festival - (2014/07)
- Nassim Taleb lectures at National Science Foundation - (2013/10)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb (and Rory Sutherland) - Nudgestock - (2013/05)
- Stanford Seminar - Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders: Nassim Taleb - (2013/04)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb: How to Live in a World we Don't Understand - (2013/04)
- Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman discusses Antifragility at NYPL - (2013/02)
- Talks at Google - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2013/01)
- ReasonTV: Nassim Taleb Talks Antifragile, Libertarianism, and Capitalism's Genius for Failure - (2013/01)
- The RSA: Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2013/01)
- The Motley Fool: Nassim Taleb on the Benefits of Uncertainty - (2012/12)
- Penguin Books UK: Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains Antifragile - (2012/11)
- WGBHForum: Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - (2012/09)
- Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs: Nassim Taleb - "The Black Swan" - (2012/04)
- Bloomberg: Nassim Taleb Discusses `Fragility' in Banking System - (2012/03)
- Bloomberg: Taleb Says Bernanke Doesn't Understand Risks of QE2 - (2012/03)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb ZURICH.MINDS. Talk with Rolf Dobelli - (2012/01)
- The RSA: The Predictability of Unpredictability - (2012/01)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - India Today Conclave 2010 - Part2 - (2011/03)
- TIME: 10 Questions for Nassim Taleb - (2010/12)
- The RSA: David Cameron in conversation with Nassim Taleb - (2010/02)
- Alan Grayson and Nassim Taleb Talk Punishment - (2009/09)
- Reflection on a Crisis (John Brockman, Nassim Taleb, Daniel Kahneman) - (2009/02)
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Early Interview - (2001/03)
- Publications on ResearchGate - Nassim Nicholas Taleb's research while affiliated with New York University and other places
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Google Scholar Page - Google Scholar Citations of Nassim Taleb's work
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