Writing
Distributional Entropy, Information, and Fat-Tails (PDF. Mathematical. I connect distributional entropy and kurtosis. April 2008.)
Those Sellers of Covered Calls (PDF, Entrepreneurship, underpricing, oversupply and salience of options, venture capital. February 2008).
Jaywalking Models (PDF, An intuitive illustration of domains where preparation is better than modeling or forecasting. January 2008)
Unpricable (PDF, Finance. January 2008)
The Impact of the Unknown, on the Unknown (PDF, Entrepreneurship, Black Swan, Asymmetry, Skewness. January 2008)
Skewed Businesses (PDF. Entrepreneurship, Black Swan, Negative Skew, Epistemological robustness. January 2008)
Etymology of "Happy" and "Lucky" in various languages (PDF. Luck, Randomness, Languages. January 2008)
Diversification in Scalable Environments (PDF. Clarifications coming soon. Finance & Entrepreneurship. Mathematical. December 2007).
Backpacking 2007: My Travel Blog (Real-time travel blog. Maybe slow while images load. December 2007).
Journal Papers in Biomedical Engineering (I'm not working in this area anymore, though I maintain an interest).
Computing Lite - The Stanford Daily (A tongue-in-cheek look at utility computing).
Entrepreneurship
I am the Director & co-founder of Fractal Press, a publishing and technology firm based in Seattle.
I like to operate in power-law environments that allow me to make positively skewed bets under massive low-cost diversification.
I'm always looking for people to work with. Contact me: navanit@gmail.comList of people who have internalized concepts in "The Black Swan". (Having read the book or otherwise)
Art De Vany, Espen Haug, Paul Wilmott, Pablo Triana, Brent Pottenger, Econophysics Blog, The Knackered Hack, Dan Goldstein, Robert Trivers, Michael Allen, Scott Adams, Chris Anderson, Seth Roberts, Philip Tetlock, Didier Sornette, Aaron Brown, Dave Lull, Yechezkel Zilber
About me
I studied at The University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University. I spent a couple of years at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, where I started as the Program Manager for Filesystems in Windows CE. Later, I owned both the Kernel and Filesystem for Windows CE 6.0 which we released in late 2006. Microsoft was a wonderful experience and I was very fortunate to have had a good team and two wonderful managers. I quit in 2007 to go backpacking around the world. I traveled through South America, Africa, and Asia. It was great. See the entrepreneurship section above to see what I'm doing now.
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