Handle Without Care

• Timothy Ferriss Speed Reading Method
• Mastery by Robert Greene
• 48 Laws of Power by Robert Green
• Exponential Organizations video
• Audible
• The Art of Manliness Blog re: Antifragile
• Antifragile Property series part 1
• Antifragile Property Series part 2
• Flanuer definition
• The Khan Academy
• Udemy
• Harvard’s Open Learning Initiative
• Gaussien AKA Normal distribution
• Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
• The Big Short film
• Spartan Up book by Joe De Sena
• The Signal in the Noise by Nick Silver
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Glial cells
• Deadlift
• Calgary floods
• Hurricane Katrina
• Option trading
• Ten Principles for a Black Swan-proof World article by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Be prepared: Nicholas Nassim Taleb’s work is dense [2:20]
• Sidebox: Javan’s Reading Hack [3:45]
• Increase speed in reading by 1.25x or more [5:20]
• Audible plus hard copy reading [7:47]
• Taleb and Black Swans [9:11]
• Javan’s other reading hack: reading summaries  [9:52]
• The Bed of Procrustes [10:43]
• Taleb’s mentality: we stretch to fit instead of talking about differences [12:10]
• Schoolkids and Procrustian Beds [13:30]
• Bespoken Education [15:09]
• The Black Swan [16:55]
• Bell curves and Extremistan [17:39]
• Fukushima as a Black Swan [20:00]
• Why Taleb chose the Black Swan analogy [21:30]
• The World is Indeed Random: the Concept of Induction [24:20]
• Confirmation Bias [26:30]
• Mediocristan vs Extremistan [27:38]
• Black Swans can be positive or negative [30:30]
• Black Swans vs Turkeys [31:20]
• The downside of upside, or the upside of downside [34:20]
• Asymmetry in investments [35:05]
• The Three Camps of Existing Antifragile [38:01]
• The Example of Buying Gold [42:00]
• What actively improves your life and offsets risk? [44:00]
• Antifragile: things that benefit from volatility [46:55]
• Using a process that adds benefit or value to a product [49:42]
• Action points of Black Swans [53:06]
• Life as a series of tiny experiments [57:47]
• Invest in Relationships [1:00:57]
• Episode regarding Black Swans and Business? [1:03:27]
• This podcast is a tiny experiment [1:04:48]
• Survive and Thrive When Shit Happens [1:06:50]
• Bumper Stickers for Black Swans #nassimophiles [1:08:47]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Author, The Black Swan

Tim Ferriss — Author, Entrepreneur, podcaster The Tim Ferriss Show

Robert Greene — Author, The 48 Laws of Power

Salim Ismail — Author, Exponential Organizations

David Rock — Author, Your Brain at Work

William Gibson — Author, Neuromancer

Steven Pinker — Author, How the Mind Works

Jocko Williink — Author, podcaster Jocko Podcast,Retired Navy Seal