The philosopher, options-trader, and best-selling author, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is among the most provocative and original thinkers of our time. Across many domains, his insights on how we are persistently prone to being ‘fooled by randomness’, blind-sided by ‘the black swan’, and tethered to the ‘fragile’ are central to understanding the world in which we live. They also chime loudly with the mindset of a value investor: Luck v Skill / Noise v Signal & Time I’m sure there are many golfers, tennis-players and football fans reading this today. For the golfers, consider whether your chance of beating Rory McIlroy…

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