Fooled by randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recommended on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, most recently on 2026-08-06 — 2 shows, 2 episodes.

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Where it came up

• The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · The Man Who Owns 4% Of All Bitcoin: "I Made $15 Billion By Using ChatGPT!" | Michael Saylor · at 1:34:54 · 2026-08-06

  “Nicholas Taleb wrote, like Fooled by Randomness and Skin in the Game and The Black Swan. How do you know the difference between something that's meaningful and something that's just misleading random data. That was profoundly valuable to me.”Recommended

• WTF is with Nikhil Kamath · Howard Marks: AI, Debt vs Equity & The Next 40 Years Of Investing | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · at 1:38:19 · 2026-05-04

  “Taleb in his book Fooled by Randomness talks about the difference between investing and dentistry.”Discussed

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