We're joined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb for Episode 81 of The Beirut Banyan, and we discuss the October 17 Revolution and Lebanon's modern history within the context of complex systems and local structures.
Nassim is a professor at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering. He is the author of Fooled by Randomness; The Black Swan; The Bed of Procrustes; Antifragile; and Skin in the Game.
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