NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB is an essayist, belletrist, & researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the "Black Swans" i.e. outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness), mathematical sciences (probability theory, statistical physics), social science/finance (opacity & incomplete information in economics), and cognitive science (the mental biases making us "fooled" by randomness). He mainly derives his intuitions from a 2-decade long and intense practice of derivatives trading ("nondull" activities with plenty of randomness).
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents 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.
Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.
With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
我看书有个习惯,在看一本书前我往往会等《纽约时报》的书评,然后再去看看亚马逊网上群众的意见。之所以如此做,是因为作为村上忠实的粉丝,我和永泽一样坚信人的生命有限,不应该去读那些不值得读的书,否则机会成本真是太高了。永泽的解决方案是只读经典,我虽然在很大程度...
评分 评分我先引用书里面的一句话——“聪明人能容忍别人的小缺陷,但不能容忍别人严重的自相矛盾;弱者能容忍别人严重的自相矛盾,但不能容忍别人的小缺陷”。(P95) 但恕我直言,作者自己就给自己打脸了。作者序言部分提到“普罗克拉斯提斯之床”的概念,意图表明“遇到我们不了...
评分《随机生存的智慧》,内容不多,读透却实属不易。 我们本就生活在一个随机的世界。人心的丑恶,世俗的肮脏,潜在的危险和暗藏的机遇……就像光明的背后未必是黑暗,脆弱的反面不一定是坚强,生命本就有太多灰色地带,只因世人怠惰,懒得思考罢了。 Taleb没想把生活说得很清晰...
评分到后面有些重复
评分警句真的很多。比想象得好。
评分格言与吐槽的本质区别在于是否有如下操作:1.高级词汇,2.丰满韵脚,3.魔性转折,4.引发令人发指的愉悦。???? (+5.硬皮装帧)
评分到后面有些重复
评分wise words...
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