With characteristic panache and brio, Taleb uses aphorisms to condense his rambunctious ideas and style. This is the perfect reference for anyone searching for the right questions to ask.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.
Like Twain and Wilde before him, Taleb eats paradoxes for
breakfast... The aphorism is Taleb to a tee. It showcases his wit
and learning, and provides ways to fillet his enemies. All his
usual suspects are present to be corrected: bankers, fools,
politicians, journalists... Present, too, are his heroes: the
curious, the intellectually anarchistic, the idle philosopher --
James Kidd * Independent on Sunday *
[A] quirky, entertaining collection of aphorisms, covering
everything from the web to the injuriousness of doing too much
work... a wry, often hila rious glimpse -- Robert Collins * The
Times *
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