Il cigno nero. Come l'improbabile governa la nostra vita

This is a book that raises a number of very important questions, but chief among them is definitely the question of how the interplay between a good idea and an insufferable author combine to effect the reading experience? This author is an a-hole. Full stop. He's dismissive, chronically insecure, u Leggi tutto

This is a great book. And, to take a page from Taleb, anyone who doesn't think so is wrong. No, no, there are a number of problems with the book. A bit bloated, a bit repetitive. And NNT does make the misstep every once and a while. To take a very small instance, Taleb bases a short section of the bo Leggi tutto

I can summarize this book in two words: Shit happens. Actually, I should be more fair since the author spent 300 pages laying out his beliefs and arguing his conclusions. The real summary of this book should be: Shit happens more often than you think. The author, Taleb, rails against economics, most p Leggi tutto

I stopped reading this because the author is so pompous and annoying.

This book has diminishing returns on the time spent reading it. Taleb's jeremiad is directed against - well - everyone who is not as enlightened as he is. I trudged through this book because - well - everyone is reading it and enlightened people should know how to comment on it. There, I did it. Now Leggi tutto

This book profoundly nasty and intellectually demented. Taleb a classic science denier; oscillating between anti-science and pseudo-intellectual arguments. When some scientist says something he likes, he misrepresents it to fit his narrative. When the scientific consensus is against him, he cries gr Leggi tutto

If you skipped your Systems, Statistics, or Random Variables classes in college, or if you think you know more than everyone else on Wall Street, then read this book. It will reaffirm what you already know. To the rest of you: this book will reaffirm what you thought you knew when you were 5 or 6... Leggi tutto

پس از خواندن کتاب « فریب‌خورده‌ی تصادف » متوجه شدم ذهنم حتی بیش از آنچه انتظار داشتم، تحت تأثیر قرار گرفته است. انگار پنجره‌ی تازه‌ای پیش چشمم گشوده شده بود، خودم را در حالی یافتم که روزها و هفته‌ها با نگاهی نو -نگاه احتمالات و تصادفات- به جهان و اتفاقات ریز و درشتش می‌نگریستم. پس تصمیم گرفتم خواندن جل Leggi tutto