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My guest today is John Casti, an internationally-recognized complexity scientist and best-selling popular science author, mathematician, and entrepreneur. He has written more than 120 scientific articles, seven technical monographs and textbooks on mathematical modeling, and sixteen books on popular science. His book, Alternate Realities, was awarded the Association of American Publishers prize. Prey for Me is his first work of fiction.
The topics are his books X-Events: The Collapse of Everything and Mood Matters: From Rising Skirt Lengths to the Collapse of World Powers.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- The fundamentals of socionomics
- The science of surprise
- Understanding that social mood is time-dependent
- How X-events can trigger mood reversals
- Isolating the collective social belief
- The mindset of “the crowd”
“So you’re gonna have a lot of small losers. But, hopefully, you have a few homeruns that pay for the losers and leave you something extra for your efforts.” – John Casti
Mentions & Resources:
- John Casti
- Bob Prechter
- “X-Events” by John Casti
- “Mood Matters” by John Casti
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