Ergodicity

Why it’s on the list: Luca Dellanna’s short, plain-language primer on ergodicity — why survival beats performance over repeated trials (the Taleb/ruin-risk idea, made simple).

Where I saw it: Listed under 2027 (to-read) in Kyle’s Roam ‘Books Read’ page (moved here from the reading queue — it is a short book, not an article).

Connections

• The Black Swan
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Risk
• Luca Dellanna

Saved from Roam

• [← Go back to Chapter 3.1 – Defining ergodicity](Chapter 3.1 – Defining ergodicity)
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• A definition of ergodicity}}
• Ergodicity is a property of a system, not of an activity}}
• Ergodicity as a non-binary property}}

Full text archived privately

Kyle imported the whole book into Roam as a Roam-native “rBook” — 67 pages, ~27,700 words, front matter through acknowledgements. That text now lives at Ergodicity — Full Text in wiki/manuscripts/, which no sync script globs, so it stays in Obsidian and never reaches the public site. Dellanna’s own copyright notice is explicit — “The contents of this book cannot be reproduced or distributed without the explicit written consent of the author” — which is exactly why the text sits behind a never-synced directory while this card, and only this card, is public.