June 18, 2013
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an expert on risk and randomness. In the lecture below, he discusses “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable“. a book published in 2007 that focuses on the extreme impact of certain kinds of rare and unpredictable events and human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events retrospectively. […]
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June 13, 2013
There is a 60-page supplement to Financial Times today, about the Inventions and innovations that helped create today’s business world. Articles are categorised into: People, Technology – Computers, Technology – Applications, Globalisation, Consumers, Changes sources of Energy, Aviation, Banking and Finance, and Management As usual with Financial Times, the content is excellent. I strongly recommend […]
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