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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

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  2. 2

    The Black Swan

    • 480 pages
    • 17 hours of reading
    4.0(98187)Add rating

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

    The Black Swan
  3. 3
    3.8(8316)Add rating

    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 Procrustes
  4. 4

    "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

    Antifragile
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    The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that applies to all aspects of our lives. Nassim Nicholas Taleb pulls on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Hammurabi to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to create a tapestry for understanding our world in a brand new way. Among his insights: For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing -- Ethical rules aren't universal -- Minorities, not majorities, run the world -- You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot -- Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find) -- True religion is commitment, not just faith

    Skin in the Game. Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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