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Incerto

This series delves into the profound role of randomness, uncertainty, and unpredictability in human affairs and financial markets. The author masterfully blends personal anecdotes with deep philosophical insights and mathematical concepts. Readers will explore how to navigate a world dominated by chance and understand our innate desire to impose order on chaos. It offers a thought-provoking exploration of risk, skepticism, and the true nature of reality.

Incerto Box Set
Skin in the game : hidden asymmetries in daily life
Antifragile
The Bed of Procrustes
The Black Swan
Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Black Swan

    • 480 pages
    • 17 hours of reading

    From the critically acclaimed author of Fooled by Randomness, a book about the impact of improbable events on every aspect of life.

    The Black Swan2
    4.0
  2. By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery

    The Bed of Procrustes3
    3.8
  3. Antifragile

    • 544 pages
    • 20 hours of reading

    "The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time

    Antifragile4
    4.1
  4. Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work? The answer- too many people running the world don't have skin in the game. In this provocative book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows that skin in the game applies to all aspects of our lives. It's about having something to lose and taking a risk. Citizens, lab experimenters, artisans, political activists and hedge fund traders all have skin in the game. Policy wonks, corporate executives, theoreticians, bankers and most journalists don't.

    Skin in the game : hidden asymmetries in daily life5
    3.9

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