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Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want Jan 20, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:32 Morgan Housel Now, I think it was Nassim Talib talks about everyone has their uncle points where at some point you're going to cry uncle.

How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland Dec 9, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 23:12 Rory Sutherland In fairness, if you study social science matters, you've probably, but I agree with you that the, I mean, my wife occasionally gets a bit annoyed with me because I'll get, you know, I will literally apply Taleb logic to decisions.
  • ▶ 23:47 Rory Sutherland You know, in other words, you know, so I deploy occasionally, we'll deploy these kind of Taleb lines, and I, you know, I'll also say, let's fly from so-and-so, because, you know, it's the Satisfice's airport.
  • ▶ 1:03:27 Rory Sutherland In other words, what Nassim would say, I love this phrase, uh, increasing your surface area exposure to positive, positive upside optionality.

Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work Feb 7, 2023 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 26:37 Aaron Dignan And so what you're actually allowing is you're allowing a system to have these veered off experimental spaces, sort of a barbell strategy, like the way, um, to lab would talk about it.

#89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry Aug 4, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:57 Shane Parrish Before we, we get to your meeting with Eric, um, there's, I just want to push back slightly on that and hear your take on this, which is, I think it's Nassim Taleb who sort of has a theory that we can't use games as models for real life. 2 times in the scene

#77 Mike Maples: Living in the Future Mar 3, 2020 · 1 mention

#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery Sep 18, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 54:42 Tobi Lütke Yeah, um, I, I, I've always been a fan of, I mean, this is called, Nassim Taleb finally gave this concept a name with his book Anti-Fragile, right?
  • ▶ 1:15:16 Tobi Lütke I mean, there's some books that were incredibly relevant for, for building up Shopify, um, lots of books by Nassim Taleb, um, uh, uh, Team of Teams by, uh, General McChrystal.

Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising May 30, 2017 · 1 mention

#18 Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher Apr 11, 2017 · 1 mention

#11 Ryan Holiday: The Stoic Whisperer May 16, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:53 Ryan Holiday Well, I mean, one of the first things I like to do, if only for my own sake, is I, even though I, like, look, I wrote my biography, so I'm responsible for the people who say, like, hey, um, you know, you dropped out of college at 19, but…
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