What is a Flaneur?
Someone who, unlike a tourist, makes a decision opportunistically at every step to revise his schedule (or his destination) so he can imbibe things based on new information obtained. In research and entrepreneurship, being a flâneur is called “looking for optionality".
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
WHAT IS THIS?
A blog I think but I'm not really expecting many people to read it. It's basically as a way to organise the random thoughts I have throughout the day. Inspired by Taleb's celebration of the Flânuer lifestyle, I'll try to take advantage of my random bursts of brain activity by setting these ideas to internet stone. Because of this, the topic choices will probably seem a bit esoteric and self-indulgent. If you find it interesting or in anyway insightful then it's already exceeded it's original intent.
In theory, it should contain posts about social sciences, particularly issues within political science and public policy. It'll probably contain some random stuff as well e.g. film and book reviews, pop culture analysis, currents events commentary. I'm comfortable with letting it develop organically (in keeping with the general philosophy of embracing randomness and complexity).
The name of the site is a shameless synthesis of two things I love: HBO's True Detective and a concept drawn from the work of Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbably (2007) and other great books. It's also a sort of aspirational statement , my hope is to link topics together which aren't traditionally considered to be related.
In theory, it should contain posts about social sciences, particularly issues within political science and public policy. It'll probably contain some random stuff as well e.g. film and book reviews, pop culture analysis, currents events commentary. I'm comfortable with letting it develop organically (in keeping with the general philosophy of embracing randomness and complexity).
The name of the site is a shameless synthesis of two things I love: HBO's True Detective and a concept drawn from the work of Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbably (2007) and other great books. It's also a sort of aspirational statement , my hope is to link topics together which aren't traditionally considered to be related.