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.
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).
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...
评分拿到手才发现是格言集,对于偶尔摘抄的读者来说其中有许多让人眼前一亮的格言警句,但要做摘抄却是要做全书了。 虽也字数不多。 不论是通过什么形式(格言),还是非常喜欢作者的观点和内容,不时让人醍醐灌顶另眼看世界。
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1. 思维清晰是勇气的结果,而不是反过来。 2. 傻瓜认为自己是特殊的,别人都是普遍的;聪明人认为自己是普遍的,别人都是特殊的。 3. 绝大多数沉迷于信息-网络-媒体-报纸的人都很难接受,获得智慧的主要方法是从头脑中除去垃圾信息。 4. 愚人的陷阱是,你会关注你知道而别人...
NNT是个old-school punk啊。
评分NNT是个old-school punk啊。
评分故弄玄虚,不知所谓。
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