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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Review

Improbable, unpredictable things happen, and can have a big impact. We can explain these events after the fact, but the explanation is a kind of self-delusion. More detailed knowledge of unfolding events, and more technical expertise, don't aid prediction.

These are the book's great insights.

The term 'pretentious wanker' comes to mind.


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status: completed
isbn: 1400063515
title: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
category: technical
comments:
rating: terrible

 
 
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