{"id":436,"date":"2004-05-09T12:27:29","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T12:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/psst\/?p=436"},"modified":"2004-05-09T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T12:27:29","slug":"436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/436\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"gladwell dot com \/ blowing up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gladwell.com\/2002\/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm\">gladwell dot com \/ blowing up<\/a> &#8211; amazing portrait of Taleb; &#8220;Taleb buys options because he is certain that, at root, he knows nothing, or, more precisely, that other people believe they know more than they do.&#8221;; the philosophy of &#8220;being the house&#8221; in the stock market, but over a long, long, period&#8230;you give up some temporary gains but avoid the giant losses (in fact, profit from them, since Taleb buys and sells <em>options<\/em>, not shares)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gladwell dot com \/ blowing up &#8211; amazing portrait of Taleb; &#8220;Taleb buys options because he is certain that, at root, he knows nothing, or, more precisely, that other people believe they know more than they do.&#8221;; the philosophy of &#8220;being the house&#8221; in the stock market, but over a long, long, period&#8230;you give up&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/436\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psst"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9wjHJ-436","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}