# We’re in a ‘polycrisis’ - a historian explains what that means | World Economic Forum

<https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/polycrisis-adam-tooze-historian-explains/>

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## What Jamie wrote

I hadn't heard the term 'polycrisis' until listening to [Taleb and Patterson on the Tim Ferris podcast](https://tim.blog/2023/09/07/nassim-nicholas-taleb-scott-patterson/). The concept is worth being able to name, although I don't relish the idea of being in one.

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- [WT261: Weekly Thing 261 / Bloomfield Bridge, Critical Ignoring, Subscription Era](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/261/), Briefly

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- [Nassim Nicholas Taleb & Scott Patterson (#691) — The Tim Ferris Show](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a1455717d609/) (tim.blog, September 14, 2023)

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