{"id":802,"date":"2013-12-22T10:04:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T23:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2013-12-22T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T23:10:18","slug":"antifragile-taleb-at-the-rsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"Antifragile &#8211; Taleb at the RSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This hour long presentation covers the key points from Taleb&#8217;s Antifragile. It doesn&#8217;t matter how often I read or listen to this, it still comes across as massive. Interesting that the UK conservatives are taking it up with vigor, hmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Big Ideas page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/bigideas\/antifragile\/4501692\">http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/bigideas\/antifragile\/4501692<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RSA page:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/audio-and-past-events\/2012\/antifragile\">http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/audio-and-past-events\/2012\/antifragile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/__data\/assets\/file\/0006\/999816\/20121206NassimNicholasTaleb.mp3\">Full RSA audio link<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Antifragile<\/h1>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Download this item as MP3 (24.53MB)\" href=\"http:\/\/mpegmedia.abc.net.au\/rn\/podcast\/2013\/02\/bia_20130212_2005.mp3\">Download audio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<dl>\n<dd>Tuesday 12 February 2013 8:05PM<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/bigideas\/nassim-taleb\/4504028\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nassim Taleb\" alt=\"Nassim Taleb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/image\/4504028-3x2-340x227.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/bigideas\/nassim-taleb\/4504028\"><strong>IMAGE:<\/strong>\u00a0NASSIM TALEB\u00a0(AGATHE B &#8211; CC FLICKR)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 Nassim Taleb came to prominence with the publication of\u00a0<em>The Black Swan<\/em>and the idea that the world is full of highly improbably and unpredictable events. In his latest book\u00a0<em>Antifragile<\/em>\u00a0he explains how to live with, and respond to, these seemingly random and unforeseen\u00a0<em>black swan<\/em>\u00a0events.<\/p>\n<p>The key he says is to create systems that are\u00a0<em>Antifragile;\u00a0<\/em>ones that are not simply robust or resilient but can adapt and improve when subjected to uncertainty, chaos and volatility.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of\u00a0<em>Antifragile<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; RSA (UK) 6th Dec. 2012<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-lang=\"en\" data-count=\"vertical\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.285714286rem; line-height: 1.6; color: #444444;\">Guests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Nassim Taleb<\/dt>\n<dd>Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University&#8217;s Polytechnic Institute.<br \/>\nAuthor of &#8216;Antifragile: how to live in a world we don\u2019t understand&#8217;\u00a0(Allen Lane, 2012).<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>Rohan Silva<\/dt>\n<dd>Senior policy adviser to UK Prime Minister, David Cameron.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl>\n<dt>Fraser Nelson<\/dt>\n<dd>Editor, The Spectator (UK)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Further Information<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/\">The RSA<\/a><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>Credits<\/h2>\n<dl>\n<dt>Presenter<\/dt>\n<dd>Paul Barclay<\/dd>\n<dt>Abridger<\/dt>\n<dd>Ian Coombe<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hour long presentation covers the key points from Taleb&#8217;s Antifragile. It doesn&#8217;t matter how often I read or listen to this, it still comes across as massive. Interesting that the UK conservatives are taking it up with vigor, hmm&#8230;. Big Ideas page:\u00a0http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/bigideas\/antifragile\/4501692 RSA page:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thersa.org\/events\/audio-and-past-events\/2012\/antifragile Full RSA audio link Antifragile Download audio Tuesday 12 February &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antifragile &#8211; Taleb at the RSA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,8,18,22,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complex-adaptive-systems","category-cool","category-entrepreneurship","category-meaning","category-policy","category-politics","category-rapid-learning-health-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}