Size Makes You Fragile – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician, philosopher, and essayist, known for his work on uncertainty, risk assessment, and randomness.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows that greater size can bring efficiency while also increasing vulnerability to risk.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician, philosopher, essayist, and former trader who gained worldwide recognition for his books on chance, randomness, and uncertainty, especially the "Incerto" series. He specializes in the role of extreme events and non-linearities in complex systems and critiques conventional approaches in economics and statistics.

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