Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game”

Re:Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game” by Treegarden on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:12AM (#16502710)

Thanks, I enjoyed it too. Why is "black swan" so popular here on HN though?

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Re:Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game” by protoplant on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:13PM (#16503490)

I would say because software engineers often work in mission critical systems where risk is a factor, and his job as a guy finding flaws in risk models on wall street, gave him insight on that topic.

Like maybe some kinds of bugs are like tail end risk.

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Re:Takeaways from Nassim Taleb's New Book “Skin in the Game” by dalbasal on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:12PM (#16503469)

could be several reasons. It was a good book, timely. For HN-relevance specifically, maybe http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html

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