Spike716

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Thanks for doing the AMA. I’m a big fan of The Black Swan and Antifragile. I have a few short questions:

  • How do you differentiate between the Casanova effect (survivorship bias) and the Lindy Effect?

  • What’s a good meta-heuristic to evaluate heuristics?

  • What career advice (i.e. how to not starve in the street) would you give to a recent college grad? [Edit] You're getting the college grad question a lot, so here is a substitute: How did you decide upon a goatee from the myriad of facial hair options?

Looking forward to seeing you in Chicago on 4/11!

Spike7168 karma

As a preemptive follow up, what do you think about Taoism? You briefly mentioned Lao Tzu in Antifragile, but it seems the Tao Te Ching lends itself very nicely to antifragility.