This is a very interesting book. Sub-titled “The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, it deals with our (in)ability to predict events, and the meaning that this has for people in their non-everyday lives. Taleb is an elegant and wide-ranging writer, and the book is full of pithy quotes (“Doubting the consequences of an outcome will [...]
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