Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Other, more mature, industries have developed practices to cultivate and disseminate best practice, to analyse, publish and so learn from incidents and accidents. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
Recent outages prove need for transparency around internet infrastructure

In his 2001 book, Fooled by Randomness, the former risk analyst and financial options trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb observed that an entire collection (...)

“You don’t have to win on the scoreboard. You only have to be a good person - who does their best.”
Joe Schmidt interview: The future remains a blank page

As he launches his new memoir, Joe Schmidt tells Keith Duggan he’ll go back to work at some stage. He’s just not sure what at. It was a humdrum(...)

Rory Sutherland believes today’s consumer capitalism is like ‘the Galapagos Islands for understanding human motivation’
Marketing and the science of ‘knowing what economists are wrong about’

It would be a mistake to take Rory Sutherland at face value. Walking through the lobby of a self-consciously posh London hotel, the British advertisin(...)

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is congratulated after delivering a speech to the National Union of Teachers conference in Brighton on March 25th. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire
Political populism is a condition to be managed, not cured

We are living through a mass rejection of elites. We know this because everybody says so. And magically, the reasons for popular rage always cohere wi(...)

Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network
Is your company a unicorn or a cockroach?

Nobody liked those snobby, glorified ponies anyway. Now the tech startup narrative is dominated by all-American traits such as staying power, elbow gr(...)

Former greek finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks during the 43rd annual Fete de la Rose political meeting last August in Frangy-en-Bresse, France. Photograph: Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images
Yanis Varoufakis to open upcoming Kilkenomics festival

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis will open the upcoming Kilkenomics festival, economist amd journalist David McWilliams has announced. T(...)

John Dewey: scepticism is ‘the mark and even the pose of the educated mind’
Unthinkable: Is scepticism a sustainable philosophy?

In the Middle Ages, prominent sceptics were burned at the stake. Today they’re invited to be panellists on Mock the Week. Yes, scepticism – the idea t(...)