The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (ISBN:1400063515)

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		The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
	
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				Nassim Nicholas Taleb			
		
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			1400063515		

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							Fabrice
						
							few weeks ago						
Rather stick to Fooled by randomness, ideas are cool but the book could have been easily halved without any loss...

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							A reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Just read fooled by randomness and you don't have to read this one.

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							A reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Not too deep but entertaining...

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							A reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Makes you think about how we and should see the world around us ...

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							A reader
						
							few weeks ago						
Tended to get lost a bit, but I like (and believe) his premise that we tend to try to assign "expertise" to those areas where it doesn't exist--Black Swan territory--and how ex post facto we look to create narratives to explain what happened...rather than realize we don't know why it happened.

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