# nicholas taleb (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nicholas taleb. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Language Puzzle: How we talked our way out of the Stone Age - Steven Mithen](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/69930bd786ac45e7f80b0918) _2026-03-03 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ The relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone with an interest in what it means to be human. The Language Puzzle by Steven Mithen explains how the invention of words at 1.6 million years ago began the evolution of human language from the ape-like calls of our earliest ancestors to our capabilities of today, with over 6000 languages in the world and each of us… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/69930bd786ac45e7f80b0918/media.mp3) ## [Bruce Lee: Artist of life - The 6 habits of power and wisdom from a legend](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/699312b2989966fe088ed8ce) _2026-02-17 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ Bruce Lee was an intense man with such sheer concentration of energy that no one who encountered him, on screen or in person, could help but be drawn to him and his enthusiasm for life and knowledge. Bruce Lee: Artist of Life explores the development and fruition of Bruce Lee's thoughts about gung fu (kung fu), philosophy, psychology, poetry, jeet kune do, acting, and self-knowledge. Imagine being… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/699312b2989966fe088ed8ce/media.mp3) ## [Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human - Richard Wrangham](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/686296cff1f233736950ff39) _2025-09-08 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus . At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/686296cff1f233736950ff39/media.mp3) ## [Thinking Fast & Slow - Daniel Kahneman](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/68629d7a653df36e7b03c28c) _2025-08-26 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ Why is there more chance we'll believe something if it's in a bold type face? Why are judges more likely to deny parole before lunch? Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent? The answer lies in the two ways we make choices: fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/68629d7a653df36e7b03c28c/media.mp3) ## [Impact: How to Measure World Change](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/686297555670d8650803c911) _2025-08-12 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ Is Brexit more important than Bitcoin? How do we rank Buddhism vs TikTok? The world changes, technology advances, but what really matters and how much? Sam explains the Innovation Richter Scale, a framework for understanding impact at every level of technology and what it means to society. In Nate Silver's book "On The Edge", he introduces a Technology Richter scale to determine the impact of AI.… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/686297555670d8650803c911/media.mp3) ## [Poor Charlie's Almanac - Charlie Munger](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/68629b45db315037b7615a98) _2025-07-29 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ The favourite mental models and timeless lessons from Charlie Munger on how to build worldly wisdom. Charlie Munger was the business partner of Warren Buffet and the cofounder of Berkshire Hathaway. The most successful investing company in history. He was obsessed with how ot make better decisions. His book is full of ways to help you be less wrong and how to find an edge where you can perform at… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/68629b45db315037b7615a98/media.mp3) ## [The World Until Yesterday - Jared Diamond - Stone Age Lessons on Innovation](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/686299c5653df36e7b01f60a) _2025-07-15 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ Heard enough lame insights about caveman psychology? Jared Diamond goes hard into what life was really like, how we thought and how it compares to today. A masterclass of a book when it comes to truly understanding our history and humanity and packed full of insights. Sam digests the book from a lens of innovation and what the reality of our life meant for taking risks and trying new ideas and… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/686299c5653df36e7b01f60a/media.mp3) ## [The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon - Brad Stone](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/686299835670d8650804e827) _2025-07-01 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ We share the 10 best mental models about innovation from tech titan Jeff Bezos. This episode covers the story of Amazon and some of the incredible shifts it has created on the planet. From the obvious online shopping wave to things like the e-reading industry and audiobooks, web-servers giving us Uber and Netflix, devices like Alexa. We also learn about their failures like the Fire Phone and other… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/686299835670d8650804e827/media.mp3) ## [Morgan Housel - Same As Ever: Timeless lessons on risk, opportunity and living a good life.](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/67d41f75685d5d7844b94975) _2025-03-28 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ Every investment plan under the sun is, at best, an informed speculation of what may happen in the future, based on a systematic extrapolation from the known past. Same as Ever reverses the process, inviting us to identify the many things that never, ever change. Morgan Housel wrote this to be a master class on optimizing risk, seizing opportunity, and living your best life. But does he achieve… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/67d41f75685d5d7844b94975/media.mp3) ## [Open directory of blogs for agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/EBlhArdeUXsD) _2025-03-28 · **Sponsored**_ Submit URLs or OPML; receive feed pages with summaries, plus JSON/OPML/plain text ## [The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin \[Three Body Problem pt.2\]](https://shows.acast.com/wiser-than-yesterday-book/episodes/66a0ed0d6e2c3d2a5dad4686) _2025-03-14 · Wiser Than Yesterday: Educational Book Reviews and Summaries_ A philosophical discussion on part 2 of the Three-Body Problem series, The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin. We ponder different answers to Fermi's paradox and how we'd deal with different levels of intelligence in the Universe. This of course requires pondering how different levels of intelligent beings might deal with us. We also ponder at large adaptions of books into screenplays, why writers change… [Listen](https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6448f44fe02da80011384792/e/66a0ed0d6e2c3d2a5dad4686/media.mp3)