The Street Philosopher

Hume was radically skeptical in the philosophical cabinet, but abandoned such ideas when it came to daily life, since he could not handle them. I am doing here the exact opposite: I am skeptical in matters that have implications for daily life. In a way, all I care about is making a decision without being the turkey. Many middlebrows have asked me over the past twenty years, БЂњHow do you, Taleb, cross the street given your extreme risk consciousness?БЂ«or have stated the more foolish БЂњYou are asking us to take no risks.БЂ«Of course I am not advocating total risk phobia (we will see that I favor an aggressive type of risk taking): all I will be showing you in this book is how to avoid crossing the street blindfolded. They Want to Live in Mediocristan I have just presented the Black Swan problem in its historical form: the central difficulty of generalizing from available information, or of learning from the past, the known, and the seen. I have also presented the list of those who, I believe, are the most relevant historical figures ...»