Still Simple, After All These Years

Still Simple, After All These Years

It is surprising how often Occam’s Razor  is ignored – even by supposedly smart people. Author Trent Griffith relates the following story that beautifully illustrates the point. “Too many people take a situation and create complexity where none is needed,  Take...
You Don’t Want to Have to Get Rich Twice

You Don’t Want to Have to Get Rich Twice

In 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb published The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, a book focused on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable events.  It is an essay on one single idea – we tend to be blind when it comes to random unforeseen events that...