(2013) Antifragility : Nassim Taleb & Daniel Kahneman

How do we -- as individuals and as communities -- make decisions when faced with uncertainty, inexperience, lack of knowledge or chaos? Nassim N. Taleb and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman have both devoted their careers to explorations of the decision making process: Kahneman approaching it through psychological study; Taleb through a philosophical lens. Their groundbreaking work has profoundly impacted our understanding of the decision making process today while raising new questions about how decisions are made in a world that is increasingly more difficult to comprehend. Source: https://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/live-nypl-nassim-taleb-daniel-kahneman Transcript: https://live-cdn-www.nypl.org/s3fs-public/av/transcripts/LIVETalebKahneman_2.5Transcript.doc Nassim N. Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became a scholar and philosophical essayist in 2006. Although he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, he self-