Nassim
Nicholas Taleb's Home Page
"My major hobby is
teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who donÕt have the courage to sometimes say: I donÕt know...." (You may not be able to change the world
but can at least get some entertainment & make a living out of the
epistemic arrogance of the human race).
Notes and Remarks (old-style footnotes for my work in progress, not a
blog) Public Lectures & Talks
MAIN ACTIVITY NOW: Decision Science
Laboratory
The Black Swan was the
#1
Highest Selling Nonfiction book published in 2007 on Amazon (for all of 2007) ( &
17 weeks on the NYT Bestseller
list, 43 weeks on the NYT extended list, & 9 months on the Business Week list, plus London Sunday
Times, etc. —whatever that means; not too glorious, given the other
books). Languages so far (27,
both books)
Note: I will be no longer accepting media interviews
(until at least January 2009 or c. when the paperback is out). Everything is in
the book.
ÒYou do something quite evil!Ó How I pull tricks on reviewers: 
BBC (Nikki
Bedi).
My central argument here.
PRESS. Book Reviews of The Black Swan (selection of Òget
the pointÓ items from coverage
>230 million readers/listeners/viewers so far): 
Book Review of The Black Swan in the Wall Street Journal (David Shaywitz), Niall
Ferguson (Sunday Telegraph & 
LA Times ), Roger Lowenstein in 
Portfolio, 
The Economist, Intellectual Reviewer in the Philadephia
Inquirer, Business
Standard (India) ,Short and Sweet in 
TIME, 
the Financial Times (John Kay), 
The Guardian (Oliver Burkeman). More from 
The Guardian. Also 
Business
Week, 
Bloomberg, 
The Sunday Times (London), 
International Herald Tribune . Will
Self in 
The Independent Great & honest bad
review ,by a smart but angry reviewer: more from 
The Independent ; even more from 
The Independent. More 
Sunday Times
(the economics editor). More London Times 
(Gabriel Rosenberg). Even more London Times (Science Editor). Surprisinly more
London Times
(5th review!) Even More
London Times (6th)! Even more
(I give up). 
ECONOMIC TIMES (India Times), Sydney
Morning Herald, bad review in 
The Telegraph, Good review in 
The Telegraph . Minneapolis
Star, 
, BarronÕs, The Irish Times 
, Canadian 
Fp, Business
Day (SA), 
New Scientist. 
Business World (India) , 
DNA (India),
Jamaica
Gleaner, 
, even the 
. Harvard Business Review
, The
Providence Journal, Management
Today, Almada
(Arabic),