{"id":1336,"date":"2009-02-24T11:58:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2009-02-24T11:58:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T10:58:37","slug":"seen-a-black-swan-recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Seen a black swan recently?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, you are living through one &#8211; the global financial crisis that has stunned bankers and traders around the world. Actually you <b>are<\/b> one &#8211; in evolutionary terms, your chances of being here are &#8220;a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe concept and the quote come from Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his bestselling book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable\/dp\/0141034599\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1235477494&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable&#8221;<\/a>. You can read my review of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#TBS\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs you will see, I found the book to be over-hyped and badly written. If you want better books on new ways of thinking, try &#8220;Freakonomics&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#Freakonomics\">here<\/a>] or &#8220;Blink&#8221;  [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#Blink\">here<\/a>] or &#8220;Predictably Irrational&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#PI\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, you are living through one &#8211; the global financial crisis that has stunned bankers and traders around the world. Actually you are one &#8211; in evolutionary terms, your chances of being here are &#8220;a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions&#8221;. The concept and the quote come from Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his bestselling book &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}