Reaching There

Nassim Nicholas Taleb I was watching Nassim Nicholas Taleb talk on his book Antifragility : Things that Gain from Disorder on Authors@Google. I was going through an interesting article on  Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think on HBR. A new term " black swan " caught my imagination and a few hours later I ended up with Taleb's talk. Disclaimer - I haven't read the book yet so this is not a book review but a way to motivate myself and justify either buying the book or at least borrowing it from somewhere. I'm currently trying to laboriously and lethargically read the book The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver. So it would be some time before I can put my hand to another one. What I found interesting in Taleb's Antifragile talk? So coming back to Taleb's talk there were a few key takeaways that managed to stuck in my mind because of the lighthearted conversation of the author as well as the simplicity of the idea; these key...

Politics and political satire go hand in hand. A little bit of Googling on these two keywords would result in the likes of Aristophanes  (called the prince of ancient comedy) to the modern day political satires in The Daily Show and The Colbert Nation on Comedy Central for those familiar with American television (or what's left of it after the flooding of realty shows that seem to defy rationality and creativity alike). I'm a big fan of The Daily Show which tags itself as political comedy and fake news. The show manages to bring out the ridiculousness of the various so called "news" channels which have become sources of sensationalist media that impregnates facts with heavy doses of fiction to bloat the straight facts to a state of perpetual chaos and bytes of information that can be fed to people through tubes rather than be chewed intelligently. IMHO! - Political parties are social unit of people whose aim is to gain authority and hopefully create enoug...