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I'd recommend reading Antifragile, although read it with a bit of a grain of salt. I read it for the first time earlier this year, and I was drawing all sorts o
by cableshaft 9y ago
I'd recommend reading Antifragile, although read it with a bit of a grain of salt. I read it for the first time earlier this year, and I was drawing all sorts of comparisons to cryptocurrencies (as well as how I should approach my professional career) while reading it.
That being said, the part that really threw the rest of the book into question for me was that Taleb is very anti-academia and spends several pages in the book claiming that academia had basically zero involvement in the development of computers, which just sounds like he'd never heard of Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, John von Neumann, John McCarthy, and many others.
It really made me wonder how much of the rest of the book he was claiming to be an authority on could be trusted, even though most of it seemed to make sense intuitively.