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Contents
Websites
Books
Social Media
Book Recommendations
Biographies & Memoirs
Business & Money
Computers & Technology
Health, Fitness & Dieting
History
Politics, Humanities & Social Sciences
Science & Math
Others
Podcasts
Videos
Miscellaneous
Disclaimer

Websites
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

Books
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)

Social Media
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"

Book Recommendations
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.

Biographies and Memoirs

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

Business and Money

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

Computers and Technology

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

Health, Fitness and Dieting

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

History

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
Politics, Humanities and Social Sciences

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

Science and Math

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

Literature and Fiction

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

Others

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

Podcasts
List of podcasts where Nassim Nicholas Taleb was interviewed

SophieCo. Visionaries: Nassim Taleb - Covid-19 brought socialism to America - (2020/08)

EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Pandemic - (2020/07)
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)
EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Taleb on Antifragility - (2012-01)
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)
EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Taleb on Black Swans, Fragility, and Mistakes - (2010-05)
EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Taleb on the Financial Crisis - (2009/03)
The Long Now Foundation: Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
- (2008/02)
EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Taleb on Black Swans - (2007/04)

Videos
List of talks, lectures, and interviews where you can watch Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bloomberg: 'Black Swan' Investor Nassim Taleb on Covid Misconceptions, Fed Policy, Inflation - (2020/09)
Cavaleria Com: The antidote for chaos! - Nassim Taleb Interview - (2020/09)
SophieCo. Visionaries: Nassim Taleb - Covid-19 brought socialism to America - (2020/08)
Social Discovery Ventures: Dmitry Volkov Talk with Nassim Taleb - (2020/08)
EconTalk with Russ Roberts: Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Pandemic - (2020/07)
New England Complex Systems Institute: EndCoronavirus org Town Hall with Nassim Taleb & Yaneer Bar-
Yam on May 15, 2020 - (2020/05)
ET NOW: Nassim Nicholas Taleb says, 'Likely to see the emergence of more and more viruses' - (2020/05)
Tail risk of contagious diseases: a conversation with Nassim Nicholas Taleb - (2020/05)
CNBC: 'Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb on warnings over systemic risks from global pandemics -
(2020/04)
Nassim Taleb Interview on Pandemics (2016) - (2020/04)
Nassim Taleb Teaches Trading - Convex Theory - (2020/04)
Bloomberg: Nassim Taleb Says 'White Swan' Coronavirus Pandemic Was Preventable - (2020/03)
Bloomberg: Taleb Blames Government, Corporations for Not Being Prepeared for Pandemic - (2020/03)
Darwin College Lecture Series: Extreme events and how to live with them by Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
(2020/02)
Gillian Tett & Nassim Taleb at Greenwich Economic Forum - (2020/02)
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)
Jaipur Literature Festival: 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)
The Long Now Foundation: Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
- (2008/02)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Early Interview - (2001/03)

Miscellaneous
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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