Taking a married name is considered a rite of passage that marks the beginning of a new chapter in life, but because of all this interconnectedness, it's near impossible to truly close past chapters the way it once was.
A key part of this interconnectedness, he says, revolves around seeing humans as part of the environment.
My vegetarian stance shifted from being self-focused for health to one based on this sense of this interconnectedness.
Ultimately, we recommend that city planners and managers consider economic trends when approaching community projects because of the interconnectedness of ecology and socioeconomics in urban landscapes.
Like the World War I railroad meltdown, last week's blackout was vast precisely because of the interconnectedness that the network was meant to exploit and foster.
And because of the interconnectedness of computers, it can be difficult to erase all the other virtual footprints of a relationship.
The Nazi occupation of Norway (and the Quisling next door) was all the more unsettling because of the interconnectedness of neighbors and families who had known each other for generations.
Volcanoes are nasty; other natural disasters—such as storms, floods and earthquakes only have global effects because of the interconnectedness of human societies and economies, while large eruptions have direct geophysical effects worldwide.
(Bank failures have the opposite effect; because of the interconnectedness of the financial system, one blow-up makes another more likely, not less).Indeed, Mr Taleb thinks the big mistake is trying too hard to avoid shocks.
If the world becomes increasingly complex, for instance because of the interconnectedness of nations, so should discontinuities increase, too, and the world becomes more volatile.
But perhaps the greatest immediate threat is of contagion via the banking system, because of the interconnectedness of banks - whose perniciousness was demonstrated beyond doubt in the Great Crash of 2008.
