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Read Taleb's book, "The Black Swan." Very timely these days. http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=

• moog 19y ago
  Listen to this talk he gave at the Long Now: http://s3.amazonaws.com/salt-recordings/salt-020080208-taleb/salt-020080208-taleb_web.mp3 http://s3.amazonaws.com/salt-recordings/salt-020080208-taleb...
• omarseyal 19y ago
  Honestly, Black Swan is not Taleb's best book. I would recommend you read Fooled By Randomness first if you have the chance... http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets/dp/1587990717 http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Market...
  • jakewolf 19y ago
    Both are good and help give you some perspective on stepping back and looking at the big picture.
  • davidw 19y ago
    In the above talk, he mentions that Black Swan is better than Fooled by Randomness.
• blinks 19y ago
  I grabbed this book to read on the flight to Dublin (from Seattle). It's a good read; humorous, but informative.
• blackswan 19y ago
  As you might guess, this is one of my favorite books! One of the things I find so fascinating is how, as in Fooled By Randomness, the concepts he outlines are readily applicable to so many spheres of activity in the modern world. There are black swans happening and about to happen in every field where modern technology has accelerated communication and is changing the way things are done.