MBA1078 Must Read: The Black Swan by Nassim N...

Building a business without a clear vision can feel exhausting in a way that is hard to explain. You’re working, making decisions, solving problems, and pushing forward, but deep down, it can still feel like you’re moving without a real destination. And when all the advice out th ...  Show more

Feeling like you have to be everywhere all the time just to get a few leads can wear you down fast. When you’re posting, testing, pushing, and still not seeing steady customers or referrals come in, it starts to feel frustrating and personal. In this Q&A Wednesday episode, Omar a ...  Show more

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan explores the significant impact of unpredictable, rare events—Black Swan events—that have massive consequences. The book critiques our tendency to create narratives that simplify complex realities, a narr ...

On today’s episode, Clay reviews Nassim Taleb’s book – Fooled by Randomness. Nassim Taleb is a Lebanon-born American mathematician and statistician whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. He’s very well known for his popular books, including The ...  Show more

The Black Swan illustrates the severe limitations of our thinking, and the fragility of our knowledge. All it takes is one single observation to invalidate a millennia of confirmation. Black Swans are hidden from view, because of our array of biasis and irrationalities, such as t ...  Show more

Learn from history's Greatest Minds — and find Timeless ideas you can apply to business and life. Every episode we explore a Lindy book: We strive to become polymaths like our investing and business icons, pulling the Big Ideas from a wide range of disciplines to help us become b ...  Show more