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Americans Are More Comfortable With Uncertainty aka the Black Swan

A definite ‘yes’ comes from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of The Black Swan, to the Wired magazine’s question: Is one of the strengths of the American system that, relatively speaking, it’s more comfortable with uncertainty?
Taleb says, “People here aren’t afraid of failure. They’re willing to trade the possibility of failure for the chance at […]

Top Three Europe-specific challenges for Google Inc.

So what does Nikesh Arora, who manages and develops Google’s operations in the European market, consider as the top 3 challenges for Google in Europe (vs. Google US).This morning started with a press event in the Four Seasons Hotel in Budapest (great place, great food, no wifi). The intended focus of the press event was […]