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Which Taleb's book should I read first?
by skdotdan 10y ago
Which Taleb's book should I read first?
- drallison 10y agoFooled by Randomness,first; and The Black Swan (2nd edition) second. These are books about statistics and decision theory. They might not meet some people's expectations about "non-technology" which usually means no equations and no mathematical reasoning. While not written by Taleb, How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff makes a good introduction for Taleb's books.
- thomasthomas 10y agotaleb says himself in antifragile the answer is antifragile
- skdotdan 10y agoThank you.
- simonsarris 10y agoIMO start with antifragile.
- skdotdan 10y agoAlready bought it :)
- canes123456 10y agoNot the black swan, but anything else is a fine intro. Antifragile or Fooled by randomness but work
- skdotdan 10y agoThanks.
- mohanmcgeek 10y agoAccording to taleb himself, it shouldn't matter.
- skdotdan 10y agoOkay, thanks.
- osullivj 10y agoFooled by Randomness, IMHO. Black Swan is an expansion of Fooled. Aphorisms is a vanity project. Haven't read Anti Frangile. Fooled by Randomness has lots of good analysis of survivorship bias, trend following and other mistaken pattern matching strategies that are hard wired into us, and blind us to the true nature of events.
- RachelF 10y agoRead Fooled by Randomness. The other books are expansions on these ideas, and IMHO, not as good, mostly as Taleb seems to have become angry at his critics.