Friday, February 4, 2011

A stable Singapore? Borrowing from Nassim Taleb

Here is something to carefully ponder regarding very stable Singapore. 
I posted the following to my FB page.


He is right and also wrong. No contradiction here as in the man's own words, "I don’t focus on political stability, nor do I specialise in olive groves. My specialty is risk and fragility." 

What he mostly offers you is insight. Shallow thinkers mistake them to be prescriptions to their own grief. He helps us see better but also warns us there is much that isn't visible.



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